I had the plumber in this morning for a minor problem. He happened to notice my musical instruments. "Oh, is that a saxophone?" Yep, it's a Beuscher Aristocrat tenor sax made in 1927. "And that's a trumpet?" Yep, and that's a cornet.
He told me he wanted to play the trumpet when he was a kid. Why didn't he? Because he would have been teased unmercifully. For playing the trumpet?
Yep, that's what Brockton High School is like. Apparently the trumpet is a faggy instrument, you have to play the guitar or something.
We have no future.
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I heard a similar story out this way, in the Happy Valley. A boy had a particular talent on the violin and thoroughly enjoyed playing it...but his classmates ridiculed him because it is a "girl's" instrument, so he switched to piano, which he doesn't enjoy anywhere near as much.
ReplyDeletei hope you told him it's OK to learn the trumpet, for dog's sake.
ReplyDeleteI told him it wasn't too late, yeah. Doubt he'll ever do it though.
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