[TR] The Orchestra (actual Lucas and possibly Triumph content)

[John Macartney]

Hope this little story amuses you as much as it did me when I heard it earlier 
today.
Had a phone call from one of my contemporaries who I worked with in the Export 
Department at Coventry in the '60's. Like me, Pete is now retired and lives in 
the University city of Oxford. This last weekend, he and his wife were given 
free tickets to something called "An Evening of Alternative Music" performed by 
a number of students of The Oxford Union. Taking their seats before the 
performance, they noticed the 'orchestra' comprised two large drum and cymbal 
sets, four trombones, a harp, tubular chimes and - wait for it, six Lucas 
windtone car horns (of the type fitted to sidescreen TR's) wired into three 
separate pairs and facing three microphones. Enormous speakers were scattered 
around the stage and auditorium and all plugged in to a massive amplifier.
Presently, the performance got underway and for 45 vminutes the audience 
suffered an onslaught of horrendous and nightmarish sound.
Came the interval and as members of the audience started to recover and make a 
dash for the doors, Pete saw an old man several rows in front stagger to his 
feet and wave his walking stick in the air to which was attached a freshly 
laundered white handkerchief. Grabbing his equally ancient wife and shoving her 
in front of him to one of the gangways, all that anyone could hear was the old 
man shouting, "Okay, okay, we surrender!"

Jonmac