The ceremony included a student-alumni concert of a few pieces (including a Sousa march, a staple of our bands), so Saturday morning we all pulled out our instruments to practice a little. Nicholas thought it was rather loud (he described Uncle Patrick's first tuba note as sounding like a dinosaur). And he kept calling my clarinet a flute. Ahem.
Anyway, then he wanted to try all the instruments, and he didn't do half bad (cue photos).
Uncle Brian talked to him about the finer points of the trombone slide:
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And his technique was pretty good, as it turns out.
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He also got to try the trumpet, thanks to Uncle Mike:
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(He also played the tuba briefly, but I apparently got no photos of it.)
And finally, of course, the requisite video, to prove that he really got the hang of playing a brass instrument.
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That's really hard to learn to put your lips like that - you need to get that boy a mini-Trombone, and soon!
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