| I would like to jump in here with a thought or two about it. If it was me, I would probably just let it go because if you do call them or write them and bring it to their attention, it may look like you have some sour grapes regarding the whole thing and are trying to finagle your way into the job due to a technicality - even if you are right and you did in fact win the job, they probably won't take kindly to your pointing the flaws in their process, and it will cast a good deal of doubt on the whole audition. Even if you did win the slot and the results were mixed up, they might be more likely to re-audition everyone and pay more attention to their process rather than just righting the initial wrong.
Also, regarding the comment about them finding out quick about the mistake (if there was one) during the rehearsals for the first concert, I'm not so sure about that. There may have been mulitple candidates that were more than capable of handling the job, but the idea of the audition is to find the best candidate - or at least the one that played the best that day. Even if a mistake was made and they accidentally took the #2 or #3 player, they might find that they are more than capable of handling the part, unless there was a huge disparity in ability between the #1 player and the rest. On top of that, it also depends on what they are looking for - the best player for one ensemble may not be the best for another depending on the ensemble and other players in it.
I'm sorry that you didn't get it the job, or at least have the opportunity to turn it down or take it, but I'm with Manny in that it was probably just a clerical error - they probably used a form letter for the "so sorry" letters, and probably just forgot to change "trombone" to "trumpet".
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