the salvation band

Project Codename ... BbEb_mus_ext Subject ... Discovery of a fine pair, comprising cornet and tenor horn. Serial nos. 76 and 6 (9?). Turn of century Besson "Service Class" instruments. Possibly abandoned after the dissolution of Sheepscombe Town Band, early 1930’s. Location ... Attic of farm-cottage near Cranham, England. Condition ... Reasonably sorry state. Objective ... After judicious pest-control, cleaning, tweaking and oiling, the instruments were rushed to Dr. Tony Daverin, head of the Musical Research Dept. of Hobart State University, Tasmania. Using state-of-the-art Triumphonicator* technology, the historicultural environment of these instruments was un-polarized for posterior re-creation. Results... 87.2% melodically intact and 93.7% stylistically unpolluted, probably due to decades of musical inactivity in a geographic acoustical isolation situation. Data was then digitalized applying the usual midi-standard in-thru-out methods and converted into a muso-legible format. Due to the vast quantity of produced data, this time-consuming on-going project progressed slowly, but so far has revealed the identity of the last tune to be interpreted on these instruments (Results seem to be extracted from the metal’s internal atomic structure in a reverse chronological order). Title of last performance... Danse Mathilde. Corrupted over the years to what we now know as Waltzing Matilda. Typically radical underfunding of the Musical Research Dept. caused the instruments to be re-possessed, later to be sold-off in someone’s garage sale. They were acquired at a fair price, by The Salvation Band. Hopefully investigation will continue... * registered trade mark