The Really Awful Musicians

Written by John Manders

Musicians flee a kingdom, learning harmony from an unlikely teacher.

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32 pages· 738 words· Est. 6 min read-aloud· ~530L

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Bookroo's summary

In a kingdom where music is a crime, Piffaro, a pipe and drum player, escapes with fellow musicians to avoid a grim fate. As their cacophony grows unbearable, their horse devises a clever system to harmonize their tunes. Can this ragtag band find harmony and safety, or will their notes lead them to doom? Discover the whimsical journey where music's survival hangs by a hoofprint.

From the publisher

A wacky tall tale about how musicians first learned to play together.All the musicians in the kingdom are so awful that the king sends his men-at-arms to round up musicians and feed them to the royal crocodiles. Pipe and drum player Piffaro heads for the border, collecting other refugee musicians on the way. Their jam session on the road is so bad that the horse pulling the wagon figures out a way to make them all play the same music at the same time–a system of lines and hoofprints. (In fact, there was a time before musical notation was devised, but that’s the only part of this story that is true!) Includes afterword.

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