Started playing trumpet in junior high in 1969. Played all through high school plus one year professionally with a disco band and stopped in 1976. Career, marriage, and children happened.

Picked it back up briefly in 2013 for a recruitment concert at the junior high then put it back down.

Picked it back up again in 2018 when I joined the Florida Keys Community Concert Band. So far, it seems to have stuck as I am enjoying playing with a group again.