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Elementary school music teachers are a feisty, energetic and hungry bunch. So, when I learned about a bakery’s promotion that promised a sweet treat for well… a song, I was one of many educators who descended upon their local franchise. The deal? Play Hot Cross Buns on any instrument and receive a freshly baked pastry of the same name.

I don’t know if any trombonists or bagpipers marched through those bakery doors but, according to reports, hundreds of freebies were given to people, including myself, who played that very plastic and very portable instrument with which Hot Cross Buns is practically synonymous: the recorder.

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