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What did you answer for "eliminate this instrument" question? I chose the flute, but it was a toss-up between that and the triangle.

I came out as "choleric," which, other than sounding a whole lot like the dread disease "cholera" does a good job of describing my personality.

I had to look that one up on the map.

Probably start a new thread in that category.

Very cool. Where are you located?

I played in a British-style Brass Band for a couple of years. Our principal cornet was even a Brit, so that makes it somewhat legit, right?

Here's an interesting fact I learned. Here in Utah, there used to a plethora of brass bands. In the 19th century, many Mormon emigrants came from Europe to the "Deseret Territory" (now Utah), and settled north, west, east and south. One of the cultural traditions they brought with them was the brass band. I understand it was more of a tradition across the country in those days anyway, seeing as brass bands were an important part of morale-boosting in the Civil War.

Here is a photo of a ladies' band. Pretty neat. No such thing exists now. We still have the Tabernacle Choir, but only one brass band remains in the state, and that was started by a modern-day, British emigrant. Kind of sad to see that this tradition no longer exists.

At the bottom of the homepage, I created a new category called "TrumpetMaster Archives." If you use the Wayback machine (https://archive.org/web/web.php), you can peruse TrumpetMaster before it crashed and post some useful content that existed there.

Except that Beethoven was a musician before he became deaf...

Oh, I get it. "But did he listen?" --- that's a good one!

Used to play in a BBB and the principal cornet had a Lawler. It was a beautiful instrument.

Hardenberger talks about this too. I can't remember where, however.