The trumpet player doesn’t die.

what a way to go; stabbed in the shins

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Someone’s taken out a contract on the some other audience member, but the hit man really likes the tune the trumpeter was playing so he waited until the trumpeter had finished.

OK, the hit man probably deduced that shooting the mayor would still put the trumpeter off his stride a bit so he held off to the end regardless.

Blade scraping against shin bone.

Proper office lol

a deaf guy had just been to have surgery on his ears. he took the bandages out of his ears halfway through the gig at the exact moment the trumpet player took an inhale of breath. within that two second window, the guy decides the hearing surgery had failed so suicides with an ice knife.

There’s been a Mercer! (murder)

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Er…

oh ffs

The trumpeter was getting peckish, and so took the opportunity to eat someone.

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Well you’re right. The ice knife suicide is much more plausible than any nonsense about trains.

The trumpeter is an assassin. The poison dart or ice knife he puts in his trumpet muffles the sound and he fires it at his target

the concert is on a spaceship. the sudden silence is because there has been an air-lock breach and the atmosphere has been sucked out of the room. everyone dies.

He stopped because he played the wrong note and it infuriated the mafia boss in the audience who shot the nearest person

there’s a prisoner/hostage/whatever who cares whose last request was to see his favourite trumpet man play his favourite trumpet song one last time. there’s an unexpected pause so they think the song is over and immediately body the guy

The trumpeter is not an assassin.

The death doesn’t occur because there’s a hit man in the vicinity. No prisoners/hostages.

It’s not on a spaceship.

do / did they play music on a trumpet/ bugle thing before killing people by firing squad?

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Nope