Fill in the missing lyrics
Which are the missing instruments?
a. Trombones
b. Bagpipes
c. Trumpets
d. Kazoos
The answer is A, Trombones!
"Seventy Six Trombones" is the signature song from the 1957 musical play The Music Man, written by Meredith Willson. The song also appeared in the 1962 film and 2003 TV movie adaptations. "Professor" Harold Hill uses the song to help the townspeople of the fictional River City, Iowa visualize their children playing in a marching band by hearkening back to a day when he saw several famous bandleaders' bands in a combined performance. While an average-sized high-school marching band might have 10 musicians playing the trombone, and a large university band seldom has more than 30, the band that Harold is describing included 76 trombones, 110 cornets, "over a thousand reeds," double bell euphoniums and "fifty mounted cannon" (popular in bands of the time); if such a band actually existed, it would be at least a tenth of a mile long!
"Seventy Six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand"
Which are the missing instruments?
a. Trombones
b. Bagpipes
c. Trumpets
d. Kazoos
The answer is A, Trombones!
"Seventy Six Trombones" is the signature song from the 1957 musical play The Music Man, written by Meredith Willson. The song also appeared in the 1962 film and 2003 TV movie adaptations. "Professor" Harold Hill uses the song to help the townspeople of the fictional River City, Iowa visualize their children playing in a marching band by hearkening back to a day when he saw several famous bandleaders' bands in a combined performance. While an average-sized high-school marching band might have 10 musicians playing the trombone, and a large university band seldom has more than 30, the band that Harold is describing included 76 trombones, 110 cornets, "over a thousand reeds," double bell euphoniums and "fifty mounted cannon" (popular in bands of the time); if such a band actually existed, it would be at least a tenth of a mile long!
Stay curious,
Team ARC
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