Women's groups marched through Nairobi's city centre to the sound of a wind band to signal the opening of the year-long campaign.

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My eldest brother, for some reason, became the first trumpeter in the wind band of Rakunan Junior High School, and became known as a musical genius.

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But young people in the neighboring towns had caught wind of the new band and that morning there was a group of 30 boys and girls crowding around the yard.

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Within weeks of the ODJB's engagement, Columbia Graphophone Co. executives caught wind of the uptown excitement and invited the band down to its Woolworth Building recording studio.

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"Wind ensemble is a medium that has a long, long history of patriotic and marching-band music, " Mr. Fairouz said.

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