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Stephen Gislason and the Bands

The Trinity P 2500 band members are different aspect of Stephen's personality working with his favorite music workstations. He started playing all the instruments available in the band room at Earl Haig Collegiate in 1957 when he was 14 . He started paying the piano at age 5 and studied music composition to pass exams at the Royal Conservatory of music in Toronto. His uncle Vince gave him a trumpet when he was 12. He approached  Bob Cringan, the music teacher, when he got to high school asking if he could play trumpet in the concert band, even thought his academic curriculum left no room for band classes. Cringan accepted him and became a generous and trusting mentor. Cringan would leave him the keys to the band room and Stephen would often stay after classes to practice different instruments. Other students would drop in and jam. Eventually a dance band emerged. Stephen played first trumpet in the band, often playing lead melody parts as a soloist. His trumpet playing is often featured in the arrangements available online. He tends to use a Flugelhorn patch on the Trinity and an amazing brass patch on the P2500 derived from an Oberheim Matrix sample.

The Trinity is a Korg synthesizer, music station, which Stephen acquired in 1996 when it first became available. The Trinity became a highly regarded professional instrument. Stephen states" It was love a first sight and listen for me. We bonded and for several years all my music came from the Trinity.

The EMU Proteus 2500 is another music synthesizer, workstation that represents a highly evolved, excellent example of electronic engineering, sound sampling and musical sophistication. The sounds are often quite different from the Trinity as is the approach to synthesis. Stephen admits that the Proteus 2500 has become his second love and he often neglects the Trinity. By using the complete spectrum of instruments in both workstations he has the best of both worlds, hence the Trinity P2500 band. 
 

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