--- title: Man Plays What a Wonderful World for Wife on Trumpet description: At Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, a man serenaded his wife with What a Wonderful World on the trumpet canonical: https://time.com/4050040/man-wife-trumpet-austin-airport-what-a-wonderful-world/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 25, 2015 3:26 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 25, 2015 3:26 PM UTC Austin-Bergstrom International Airport recently shared a video of a Texas man named Ed Zamora serenading his wife of 33 years — aptly named Melody — with “What a Wonderful World” in the baggage claim area. In a Facebook post, the airport wrote that Zamora showed up Tuesday afternoon with flowers in one hand and a trumpet in the other. When he saw his wife, who had just come back from a two-week trip to Spain, he started to play as she made her way down an escalator. ## Transcript [ NOISE ] What makes a video go viral? Here's our guess. Mishka, I love you. [ NOISE ] Number one, cute animals. [ LAUGH ] Charlie, Charlie bit me. [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] [ UNKNOWN ], we're going to Disneyland. Oh, my god. Number two, cute kids. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Number 3, remixes. [ MUSIC ] Whoa, oh my God, oh my God. [ LAUGH ] Oh my God. Whoo. Number four, spontaneity. Look at all those Number five. Cute kids and cute animals. Put this all together and it will certainly end up on your Facebook feed. 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