• Children as mutes – the practice of stuffing babies and young children into the bells of large brass instruments

    Author(s):
    Gavin Holman (see profile)
    Date:
    2019
    Subject(s):
    Brass instruments
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    children, Mutes, Brass Instruments
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/wd5q-jh35
    Abstract:
    How many children have had their lives blighted by their fathers stuffing them into a tuba, and then having that sorry experience recorded for posterity in a photograph? It appears to have been a commonplace activity in the early years of brass bands, though we cannot know how widespread the practice was before the advent of photography, through lack of evidence, though there are plenty of examples since then.
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    4 years ago
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