Kim Moore, trumpet

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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 - who's returned to trumpet playing after a three decade hiatus - talks with musicians about the nature of their relationship to their chosen instrument. Today, the poet Kim Moore who wrote a book about her complex instrumental entanglement, What The Trumpet Taught Me. Including extracts from 'You Can't Mean It' performed by the Soul Survivors and Askam Town Silver Band playing Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3