Joan Hinde
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Joan Hinde is a British trumpeter and entertainer.
. At the age of six she began receiving cornet lessons from her uncle, who was the conductor of a local brass band. Joan took to the instrument almost immediately and needed no coaxing to practise for several hours per day. By the age of twelve she had won over fifty competitions. In 1966 she married Kenneth Hopson and in 1967 gave birth to her daughter, Claire. She and her husband currently reside in Felpham
, Bognor Regis
, West Sussex
and remain close to their daughter and son-in-law who live nearby. Ms. Hinde still makes regular stage and concert appearances. She is perhaps the UK's oldest working female trumpeter, and is proud to have been a lifelong member of the very excluside Grand Order of Lady Ratlings.
radio programme, Children's Hour
when very young in the early 1940s. In her teens she progressed to regular and legendary appearances on BBC Variety Bandbox
, holding her own against fellow performers such as Billy Ternent and Eddie Calvert
. It was during this period that she was the only female trumpeter in the world to broadcast Haydn's famous Trumpet Concerto. This record has only been broken in more recent years.
At the time when her contemporaries were breaking into the new medium of television, Joan never did, most likely due to ineffective management. Instead, Joan Hinde forged a sparkling reputation on the live variety stage becoming a regular fixture with artistes such as Elsie and Doris Waters, Jimmy James and Co., Gladys Morgan, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Max Bygraves
, Sir Harry Secombe
and Ken Dodd
. It was with the aforementioned Sir Harry that she travelled far and wide entertaining the British armed forces during various conflicts, including the Falklands and Aden
.
Passing years have not seen any deterioration in the brilliant technical mastery of the trumpet, her enviable tone or her innate ability to entertain. Her current repertoire still includes "The Flight of the Bumble Bee", "Haydn Trumpet Concerto", and Leroy Anderson
's "Bugler's Holiday". The staple of her workload these days is The Ken Dodd
Laughter Show, but still appears in cabaret and as a guest soloist in light music concerts by larger orchestras.
In 2002 she made her first television appearance in many years on LWT's Another Audience with Ken Dodd. She appeared as the Lady Mayoress who joined in - apparently uninvited - with Dodd's singing of "The Very Thought of You". Afer the show was broadcast, LWT's switchboard was jammed with calls enquiring as to who the lady trumpet player had been and where recordings of her could be obtained. This might have made LWT think that Joan Hinde would be a useful artiste to include in a mainstream entertainment show; it didn't.
Life
Joan Hinde was born in Eckington, DerbyshireEckington, Derbyshire
Eckington is a town in North East Derbyshire, 7 miles north of Chesterfield and 8.5 miles south of Sheffield on the border with South Yorkshire.Eckington has a population of 11,152....
. At the age of six she began receiving cornet lessons from her uncle, who was the conductor of a local brass band. Joan took to the instrument almost immediately and needed no coaxing to practise for several hours per day. By the age of twelve she had won over fifty competitions. In 1966 she married Kenneth Hopson and in 1967 gave birth to her daughter, Claire. She and her husband currently reside in Felpham
Felpham
Felpham is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the greater Bognor Regis habitation it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a population of 9611 people and still growing .The...
, Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis
Bognor Regis is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun district of West Sussex, on the south coast of England. It is south-south-west of London, west of Brighton, and south-east of the city of Chichester. Other nearby towns include Littlehampton east-north-east and Selsey to the...
, West Sussex
West Sussex
West Sussex is a county in the south of England, bordering onto East Sussex , Hampshire and Surrey. The county of Sussex has been divided into East and West since the 12th century, and obtained separate county councils in 1888, but it remained a single ceremonial county until 1974 and the coming...
and remain close to their daughter and son-in-law who live nearby. Ms. Hinde still makes regular stage and concert appearances. She is perhaps the UK's oldest working female trumpeter, and is proud to have been a lifelong member of the very excluside Grand Order of Lady Ratlings.
Works
Joan Hinde's showbusiness career began on the BBCBBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
radio programme, Children's Hour
Children's Hour
Children's Hour—at first: "The Children's Hour", from a verse by Longfellow—was the name of the BBC's principal recreational service for children during the period when radio dominated broadcasting....
when very young in the early 1940s. In her teens she progressed to regular and legendary appearances on BBC Variety Bandbox
Variety Bandbox
Variety Bandbox was a British radio variety show transmitted by BBC Radio on the Light Programme. Featuring a mixture of comic performances and music, the show helped to launch the careers of a number of leading British performers....
, holding her own against fellow performers such as Billy Ternent and Eddie Calvert
Eddie Calvert
Eddie Calvert was an English trumpeter, who enjoyed his greatest successes in the 1950s. Calvert had his first United Kingdom, number one instrumental single in 1954, with "Oh Mein Papa".-Biography:...
. It was during this period that she was the only female trumpeter in the world to broadcast Haydn's famous Trumpet Concerto. This record has only been broken in more recent years.
At the time when her contemporaries were breaking into the new medium of television, Joan never did, most likely due to ineffective management. Instead, Joan Hinde forged a sparkling reputation on the live variety stage becoming a regular fixture with artistes such as Elsie and Doris Waters, Jimmy James and Co., Gladys Morgan, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Max Bygraves
Max Bygraves
Max Bygraves OBE is an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs...
, Sir Harry Secombe
Harry Secombe
Sir Harry Donald Secombe CBE was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show...
and Ken Dodd
Ken Dodd
Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE is a British comedian and singer songwriter, famous for his frizzy hair or “fluff dom” and buck teeth or “denchers”, his favourite cleaner, the feather duster and his greeting "How tickled I am!", as well as his send-off “Lots and Lots of Happiness!”...
. It was with the aforementioned Sir Harry that she travelled far and wide entertaining the British armed forces during various conflicts, including the Falklands and Aden
Aden
Aden is a seaport city in Yemen, located by the eastern approach to the Red Sea , some 170 kilometres east of Bab-el-Mandeb. Its population is approximately 800,000. Aden's ancient, natural harbour lies in the crater of an extinct volcano which now forms a peninsula, joined to the mainland by a...
.
Passing years have not seen any deterioration in the brilliant technical mastery of the trumpet, her enviable tone or her innate ability to entertain. Her current repertoire still includes "The Flight of the Bumble Bee", "Haydn Trumpet Concerto", and Leroy Anderson
Leroy Anderson
Leroy Anderson was an American composer of short, light concert pieces, many of which were introduced by the Boston Pops Orchestra under the direction of Arthur Fiedler...
's "Bugler's Holiday". The staple of her workload these days is The Ken Dodd
Ken Dodd
Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE is a British comedian and singer songwriter, famous for his frizzy hair or “fluff dom” and buck teeth or “denchers”, his favourite cleaner, the feather duster and his greeting "How tickled I am!", as well as his send-off “Lots and Lots of Happiness!”...
Laughter Show, but still appears in cabaret and as a guest soloist in light music concerts by larger orchestras.
In 2002 she made her first television appearance in many years on LWT's Another Audience with Ken Dodd. She appeared as the Lady Mayoress who joined in - apparently uninvited - with Dodd's singing of "The Very Thought of You". Afer the show was broadcast, LWT's switchboard was jammed with calls enquiring as to who the lady trumpet player had been and where recordings of her could be obtained. This might have made LWT think that Joan Hinde would be a useful artiste to include in a mainstream entertainment show; it didn't.