00:02Alan Streda is giving his 50-year-old bugle one last clean before yet another Anzac Day.
00:10The instrument might be old, but it still sounds good, just like the 100-year-old man who plays it.
00:20He's a one-man band these days, but it wasn't always that way.
00:27That's Jeff, that's Don, that's me.
00:31I started with the Bort band. There was a Bort band formed when I was about eight years old.
00:37He thanks his musical parents for teaching him the ropes.
00:40Mother, she played the piano and father, well, he was a singer and he had a good voice and he
00:48could sing.
00:49For 92 years, he's been an important element at every community event in Bort.
00:54I just played on anywhere where it's needed at all. They just yell out and I go.
01:00This Anzac Day, Alan will be playing at the dawn service, remembering his mates who served.
01:06Now, I wasn't in the army because my arm put me out because they said I'd never have two arms.
01:11But I just made it work.
01:13And the community says he's still got it.
01:15It's pretty amazing. Everyone comments and thinks it's good in the town, which it is. It's only a small town.
01:24A lot of them think he's getting better as he gets older, actually.
01:28I'm probably very lucky to have him.
01:30I just like the music, that's all.
01:32100 years young and still answering the call.
01:40Getting too old.
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