Double the brass

It's no secret on this blog that there is a trumpeter in the family.  Claire has been playing the trumpet since joining the ACT Instrumental Music Program in Year 5 and three years later is now in the ACT Junior Concert Band.  This is a great program offered by the ACT Department of School Education (yet another reason to love Canberra???) where kids join a band for two years in primary school and learn to play an instrument.  It's a program you have to be selected for, and then further progression into the concert bands is by audition, so it means a bit to be involved.

However, we are now blessed with double brass.  The trumpeter has been joined by a euphoniumer (?)(euphoniumist?) euphonium player as Rosemary too has joined the program.  If you have no idea what a euphonium is, think small tuba.  Not quite as big as she is, but not far off.

Needless to say, the volume level in the house sometimes feels like it has been cranked up to 11.  I look forward to the day when they can play together without squabbling.

They make a practice of not giving siblings the same instruments (thank goodness).  So with Claire on trumpet and Rosemary on euphonium, that leaves trombone or tuba for Stephanie, unless she leans towards percussion...  Pass the ear plugs in a few years time!