Denis Wick

Sid Langston was the professor, but he all but refused to pass on any of his experience in case his students 'stole' his work.

Wick did an amateur date in Salisbury and by chance the other trombonists were from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, so when the 2nd trombone job came up in July 1950, they called to invite him to audition, having already heard many of the final year students at the London music colleges.

He went on to win an audition with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 1952, a year after conductor Rudolf Schwarz had moved there.

He held the position of principal trombone at the London Symphony Orchestra from 1957–1988, including when it recorded John Williams' arrangement of the opening title for Star Wars.

Soon after moving to the LSO, Wick moved the LSO section from .485" bore Boosey Imperial tenor trombones and a .523" G bass trombone to the American "large bore" instruments (.547" tenor and slightly larger bass, now in B♭).

Experimentation possibly started in Birmingham, and the Jacob Concerto suits the larger sound, but post-war import restrictions made these instruments impossible to obtain legally before 1958.