Started playing the piano when I was 11 in Liverpool.  Couldn't carry a piano around, so took up the French Horn.  Kept leaving that on the 66 bus, so changed to a trombone.  Surprise surprise, same orchestra as our chairman. Went to Switzerland as well, played tuba at St Paul's Cathedral London.

Then went to college in York.  Spent 4 years enjoying myself, helping to build a local church organ and then being drafted in by the Minster Organ Builder Geoffrey Coffin to help tune the Minster Organ - what a racket the head verger said! - well it was the loudest stop on the organ!!  Left York and moved back to Liverpool, but due to shift work couldn't return to music. Moved to sunny Yorkshire in 1986 and 10 years later left shift work to work more normal hours!?

Having got married, the organist of the chapel said I should come and join him at a local concert band.  So after more persuasion from Neil, and a nudge from our then horn player Jean Fisher, I joined Shepley Band under Paul Arthur.  Managed to twist the arm of a certain chairman to join, and so 2 trombonists were reunited on the concert stage after some ?? years.  

I also played with 2nd Section Brass band Grange Moor.  I still haven't mastered this bass trombone, well with the right arm pumping up and down and the left hand flicking valves open and closed, you're bound to get something wrong occasionally.’