Who On Earth Brings A Trumpet To A Test Match?????

[andy-hughes]

I have been enjoying the highlights of the Test today on BBC2, except when, as I am listening to the soothing and expert tones of Isa Guha, her voice, and the sound of bat on ball, is interrupted by some idiot playing a trumpet!!!!

If I want to hear an amateur idiot playing hymns and Spandau Ballet songs on a trumpet, I am not going to tune into a Test Match to hear it.

Can't this twerp be banned from disturbing the ambiance of the last Test of the summer?

[jno]

you'll be asking why testgoers dress up as Teletubbies next. Perhaps a better question would be why the sound technicians couldn't filter the trumpet out either while recording or before screening?

[andy-hughes]

Jno - // you'll be asking why testgoers dress up as Teletubbies next. Perhaps a better question would be why the sound technicians couldn't filter the trumpet out either while recording or before screening? //

No I won't, because how people dress is not audible, either at the ground, or to tv viewers.

If this twonk is being picked up by ambient microphones, his cacophony must be audible right round the ground, and he should be prevented from inflicting his attention-seeking nonsense on people who have paid to watch a Test Match, not listen to his ego-massaging parping for hours on end.

[jno]

tbh, I've been to the occasional test match and never heard much of the noise except that created within say 100ft of me. On rewatching the highlights on TV later I've often been surprised at what microphones have picked up from otherr stands - including, occasionally, booing and abuse of whch I was completely unaware. But that's why I wondered if it couldnt be picked up after recording but before broadcast? The BBC aren't broadcasting live, that's still only on Sky as far as I know, so they should have the time.

[choux]

I would expect a decent opening batsman could sort out a trumpet player, for goodness sake ;) That would have spoiled my enjoyment too. Remember those awful vuvuzelas at the World Cup...hell on earth.

[New Judge]

Quite agree, Andy. I used to attend Lords regularly for the big matches. There was an idiot who was a regular attender there who was admitted with a full size bass drum (the type used in military bands). He would frequent the open corner at the nursery end and bash *** out of this drum for six hours. It didn't trouble me too much because I was always at the other end, but it must have been murder for those around him. Quite why he was allowed to bring it in I will never know.

[Mozz71]

All part of the atmosphere Andy. The Barmy Army often travel with a band, as do the equivilent England football fans.

[andy-hughes]

Mozz - // All part of the atmosphere Andy. The Barmy Army often travel with a band, as do the equivilent England football fans. //

I think it's slightly different for football, where masses of crowd noise, including instruments and singing, are par for the course.

Cricket has always been rather more genteel, but maybe I'm just getting old.

Leave it!!!!!

[Arksided]

vuvuzelas, oh god yes… I couldn’t remember what they were called but that’s what I thought of straight away reading this thread, I’d go to bed and still hear them *** buzzing in my head.

[Buenchico]

>>> "Who on Earth brings a trumpet to a cricket match?"

Well, for 16 years, it was Billy Cooper who, as a much-valued member of the Barmy Army, followed the England around the world . . .

[Buenchico]

These days, however, he's been replaced by Simon Finch, who carries out the same role for the Barmy Army:
https://www.instagram.com/finchythebarmyarmytrumpet/?hl=en

[sandyRoe]

A trumpet would be as nothing when compared to the tooting vajazzles all football fans had to endure during the 2010 World Cup.

[andy-hughes]

Buenchico - // These days, however, he's been replaced by Simon Finch, who carries out the same role for the Barmy Army:
https://www.instagram.com/finchythebarmyarmytrumpet/?hl=en //

Thanks for that.

Every day is a school day - I had no idea that this was a regular thing, and obviously appreciated by fans.

As an armchair viewer, I will simply have to screen out the noise, and enjoy the cricket.