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Flugelhorn

Tom Harrell, "Autumn Picture"
    Basel, 29 April 1996

  Bars before
  the end, lowering
  his horn, one note

  fading, he bows
  his head, leaving
  four trio chords,

   sustained, descending,
   accompanying
   the music of nothing.

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