ZRP welcomes the first female Trumpeter.
By Dickson Bandera Historically, the musical landscape world over has struggled to produce female buglers and trumpeters, with only few names such as Christine Kamau of Kenya, Alicia Rau, Ingrid Jenson and Alison Balisom (all British), having made it to the top thus living this class of instruments a patriarchal domain. In their quest to explain this anomaly, scholars, analysts, reviewers and writers from across the world have posted diverging explanations, but there is general consensus that lower lung capacity and embouchure ability in women are some of the common impeding factors. All this, however, is sheer hypothesis to Constable Enita Bvute of the Police Band who has fashioned a high-octane record by becoming the first female to play the bugle and trumpet instruments in the history of the Zimbabwe Republic Police. Bvute has written her name in the annals of police history, joining Sgt Patience Skosana-the first female Drum major, Inspector Massive Mufushwa, first femal...