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Player Profile:
Name: Abigail Harding
Position: Repiano Cornet
Occupation?
Student
at Leicester University, studying BA sociology
Where are you
originally from?
South
Yorkshire
Do you play any
other instruments?
Trumpet,
piano (one note per hand only!), singing (in a choir only!)
How long have
you been playing?
Since
I was 8.
When did you
join The Wigston Band? June 2006
Favourite
Pieces?
Paganini
Variations, Grand March from Aida (and Happy Birthday to You – this means
presents are coming!)
Biggest
influence? Mum and Dad
Favourite
musical moment?
At
the Royal Albert Hall for the National Finals with Forresters Band, even
though I wasn’t playing but on babysitting duty in the audience! First
concert with Leicester Uni. Orchestra.
Worst musical
moment?
Mum
trying to give me a cornet lesson in the kitchen, aged 8.
Likes? Music that
allows the back row cornets to play more than one note!
Chocolate. Holidays. Having a laugh with my mates.
Dislikes? Music that
makes the back row cornets play one note over and over again! Spiders.
Late draws for contests (waiting around all day!).
Previous Bands:
Countesthorpe
Brass (Founding member, but the band folded two years after it was
started!)
Croft Junior Band
Ancient Order of Forresters Band
Enderby Youth Band
Enderby Band
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