@Kehaulani Check her out playing "I fall in love" with Scott Hamilton. Just wonderful.

@J-Jericho Sant Andreau have some great clips. They rather put my playing into perspective.

@Rapier232 Man, this replicates my personal experience to T. Came to the horn relatively late in life, bit the bullet and bought a trumpet and Tune a Day book and persevered. I could neither justify or afford the cost of lessons, so did it the hard, very hard way. They say it is character building! That said, the sense of personal achievement in doing it myself and then joining 2 Community Bands, is something I will always carry with me. Would I recommend it? Absolutely not. Then again, the realisation you have achieved something personally significant cannot be replaced.

@L-A-Horn ditto

@Kehaulani May be urban myth, but in one of the biographies on Louis Armstrong it was written that Armstrong thought pp meant puff plenty!

@Niner I wondered the same thing myself. I have a Liberty 2B and it ain't no Peashooter. Now my Buescher 230 on the other hand...
Regards, Tom

@Niner What a co-incidence. Never heard of them until yesterday, when someone here in Oz pulled out one of their C.D's. Not my musical preference, but each to their own.
Regards,Tom

On our local Gumtree site there is a trumpet listed, with no identification other than having an elaborate 'B' etched on the bell and the letters U.S.A. immediately beneath the "B". This is not something I am interested in, but I am curious as to it's origin and if anyone can identify the horn from the scant info provided.

@djeffers78 Thanks to all those how shared their knowledge with me. Flipped the horn last week along with a Getzen 90 Deluxe and have invested in another Holton, this time a T101 B Symphony. This one is almost certainly a "keeper".

@Lud14
Your bell says more than mine! It is only inscribed Holton. Country of origin is not a big issue, as long as it is neither China or India.