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Thread #166631   Message #4025384
Posted By: Jack Campin
29-Dec-19 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: Enquiry: Re: Horses Brawl
Subject: RE: Enquiry: Re: Horses Brawl
There is another take on Bransle L'Official which you are not likely to see in a ceilidh or a carol service. It mutated into "The Celebrated Trumpet Tune", which was played on a pair of trumpets at Scottish criminal trials when the judge passed the sentence of death. The weird thing is that Scottish courts very rarely passed death sentences, in comparison to others of the time - and most of them were done on circuit, with the judge and his entourage travelling from town to town to deal with whatever cases had come up. But these two travelling trumpeters were always on the payroll just in case.