Salvation Army trumpeter muted by Wal-Mart

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POTSDAM, N.Y. (AP) — A retired music school professor says he was told to stop playing holiday songs on his trumpet while collecting for the Salvation Army outside a Walmart in northern New York.

Robert Gibbs, an 81-year-old retired professor from the State University of New York’s Crane School of Music, said managers at the Walmart in Potsdam told him Thursday that he could not play his horn at his kettle.

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