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The Annual Trumpet Festival in Serbia attracts
the fastest horn players | Filmmaker: Milivoj Ilic
Welcome to the land of the trumpet and its capital, Guca - an undisturbed, sleepy village south of Belgrade, except for one time in the year.
The Annual Trumpet Festival is Serbia's most famous provincial music festival.
It is one version of an air guitar contest for horn players.
Thousands of contestants battle it out throughout the year to reach the finals, where their musicianship, stamina, dexterity, speed and lung capacity are put to the ultimate test.
And Serbs are not the only ones who attend. The festival attracts Romas from the region and eccentrics from as far afield as Australia and New Zealand.
Belly dancers, comic barbers and serious trumpet player students come together in what one wag calls, "the biggest psychiatric clinic in the world".
Director Milivoj Ilic takes us to the land of the trumpet to visit the thrills and skills of some of the fastest horn players the world has ever heard.
This episode of Witness is scheduled to air on Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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