Repiano Cornet

David Friendly

David began playing bugle at age 8 and was in the Air Cadet Drum and Bugle Corps in Shawinigan, Quebec at age 10. He took up the cornet and later switched to trumpet in high school, continuing as a player and President of the McGill Redmen Marching Band in the late 1960s. Life took over, and like many hobby musicians, David left the trumpet to a dark closet for most of the next 20 years. News of a new Brass Band in Ottawa encouraged David to get back into playing cornet. When a transfer brought him to Calgary, he joined the Westwinds adult...