I've just been catching up with the results from the Brass in Concert championship held at Gateshead earlier today and the first thing I must say is congratulations to Danny Brooks of the winning Leyland Band for also winning the Don Lusher Trombone Award.
After reading the results, I began looking at the classified ads for player vacancies and it struck me so many bands have at least one trombone vacancy, with a number of bands needing two trombones to make up a section.
It's maybe a sad fact of life that less young people want to learn an instrument nowadays, but I hadn't realised the trombone was in so much danger of becoming an endangered species in the UK.
Heres to hoping a shortage of trombonists wont turn into extinction a number of years down the road.
