Musicians arrive @ the Pearly Gates ...

Arriving at the Pearly Gates ...
Recently a tuba player, a trombonist, and clarinetist wound up together at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter informed them that in order to get into heaven, they would each have to answer one question.

St. Peter enjoyed the rich, full, melodic sound of the tuba, so he addressed the tubist first, and asked, “What was the name of the ship that crashed into the iceberg?" They just made a movie about it, so the tubist answered quickly, “That would be the Titanic.” St. Peter let him through the gate.

St. Peter then turned to the trombonist and figuring the trombone was a fine instrument, but sometimes the correct slide positions were not always easy to find, decided to make the question a little harder: “How many people died on the ship?” But the trombonist had just seen the movie, too, and she answered, “about 1,500.”

“That’s right! You may enter,” said Peter.

Then St. Peter turned to the clarinetist. St. Peter's impression of clarinets was they were the 'Seagulls of the music ensemble!' So he said, “Name them!”