The finale of The Music Man is the boys band arrives in full uniform, and not having learned a note, when they are asked to play at the trial of Harold Hill, they sound awful. However, the townspeople are taken by the pride for their happy children that they forgive Hill for a happy ending.
The bad music had to come from somewhere because we didn't want the kids to try and play and inconsistent sound come out to where the effect didn't read. The only exceptions are the two people that had cymbals and the bass drum and they just hit them whenever. The orchestra has bad music written in our parts and we are instructed to generally just play terrible. Some people played the wrong notes on the page, some played the minuet in g tune but badly or in another key, some played whatever on their own instrument, but the adventurous ones brought a random instrument and played it to produce authentic awful playing but from a musician to replicate the child. The main people who did that were the people that are studying music education and are having to learn all the instruments. Below are photos of some of our wrong instrument shenanigans.
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