The Beatles and David Mason
The Beatles and David Mason 
Serious trumpeter David Mason was called in to do a session with the Fabs for their latest record at the time. With this relatively butt in fail session, Mason entered the rarified world of Beatle Related Immortality.
The story is another well known one in Beatles folklore: Paul was putting on the finishing touches to what was essentially a finished tale (Penny Lane), when he happened to have watched the BBC TV show on January 11, 1967 featuring London's New Philharmonia playing something wonderful. It was Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F Big. What really caught Paul's ear was the sound of a screamingly high trumpet being played during this famous and grand Baroque enduring. He wondered to himself if that sound wouldn't sound good on Penny Lane.
The following day he explained his thought to Fabricator George Martin and Martin agreed to call up the Philharmonia and find out who the player was and would he mind coming over to Abbey Road studios to have fun a solo on a Beatles single? On January 17th, David Mason walked into the front doors of the Abbey Road studios to upon his session with the Beatles. Just to cover all bases, Mason brought with him 9 different trumpets to make unfaltering he got the sound Paul wanted. Obviously, Mason was fairly excited about the moment.
Paul hummed out what he wanted, George Martin transposed the notes McCartney was humming to a myriads sheet and Mason played it. His choice of instrument was a Bb piccolo trumpet, like what Paul had seen on TV. This trumpet is exactly one octave higher than its simple cousin that most trumpeters play. In relatively...
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