This Little Piggy Won’t Play The Trumpet Again
This Little Piggy went to Market,
This Little Piggy Stayed Home,
This Little Piggy had Roast Beef,
And This little Piggy was Severed off by a collapsing keyboard stand!!
This story might seem like something out of a musicians horror film but it is 100% true. I was on a gig over the weekend when I was called up by a soul band I do some work with from time to time. They were desperate for an emergency dep for a gig in Manchester. Unfortunately I couldn’t do it because of the distance and my commitments with the Shades the next day but the reason that they needed a last minute dep was because their regular trumpet player had an accident with another band the night before.
He was putting up an X-frame keyboard stand when it slipped and severed his index finger clean off. To the KNUCKLE!! I winced when they told me and so did the musicians I was gigging with at the time. Apparently the doctors couldn’t save it either!! How upsetting is that?!??
It led to us all trying to play our instruments in as many unconventional ways as we could think – left handed, wrongs fingers, with our palms – as we tried to work out what we could lose and still play.
Just out of interest it turns out that your stuffed if you lose anything on the sax. You can still play the trumpet with one hand but the best instrument if you are prone to horrific accidents is the trombone which you can play with no hands.
Hehe.
If you’re a player like me, it probably wouldn’t make a whole lot of difference. To quote Laurel and Hardy: I am a musician who plays neither by note nor by ear. I use brute strength.
Cripes!! That is extremely scary. Thankfully one can still sing without any limbs at all! As long as one has enough puff!!