The overflow service ran long with cathartic wails of the young widow and sobbing kids from the school where Shavers was a band teacher.

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Mr. URCOLA: Yeah, my father was a music teacher, was a band director at the time in one of the few schools they have a big music program in Argentina.

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Ms. Phipps, now a photography teacher, remembers driving around with the band's then-manager in the early 1980s.

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"We like to think of our sound as fairly unique, " laughs David Gray, a music teacher, one of the four members of the Yelverton-based band.

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