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Robert Smith, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, University of South Wales

UNBELIEVABLE: Four tips for picking up that instrument you might have put down a long time ago - Caught on Camera

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I started a street band in 1992 as a Community Music project. That band has gradually transformed itself into Wonderbrass, a community big band based in South Wales with around 30 active members.

The majority of players are people who developed an often impressive level of musicianship in their teens but let their musical activities lapse as they decided it wouldn’t be a career for them. And then, one day, they remembered how much fun music was and wanted to have some, or all, of that back in their lives.

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