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Playing a musical instrument - whether you're professional or amateur - rarely follows a simple trajectory of practice and progress and it makes psychological as much as physical demands that can come to define a person. Alan Hall talks with musicians about the nature of their relationship to their chosen instrument. Today, Siobhan Edwards, who - though still only 27 - has been principal tenor horn in one of the world's best brass bands, the Black Dyke Band, for an astonishing ten years. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3
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