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Barney was born in Aylesbury on the First of January 1982. by the age of three he had already started having piano and violin lessons, amazing his teachers by harmonizing simple exercises instead of just playing what was written. His mother bought a battered cornet to start a collection of old instruments, but he would not let her leave it on the shelf. Instead, he found he was already able to 'buzz' nursery rhymes on the mouthpiece. At the age of six, he stopped learning the violin and started lessons on the cornet at Locker's Park School for Boys in Hemel Hempstead. Just days after his seventh birthday he had already passed his Grade 5 practical examination. He was awarded a music scholarship to attend Haberdashers' Aske's School for Boys in Elstree, where he continued to study the cornet, piano and singing, leading senior school brass groups whilst still attending the preparatory school. By this stage it was clear that Barney had exceptional talent as a musician, he was regularl...