Cario Band Narrative

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The room was filled with noise. Copious amounts of 5th Graders try the mouthpieces of all the instruments in the Cario band. I was about join them! Well, as soon as my mom filled out the paperwork. I wanted to leave her to finish that onerous job while I went ahead, but I had to wait those 5 minutes with her. Finally, a crowd of other kids and I were placed into a group tour with an 8th grader dressed in the blue Cario Band shirt and Khakis as a guide. We began the trial and error process of testing mouthpieces with our parents at our sides, us having fun and the parents trying not to be officious but failing.

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