@Newell-Post Rehearsals for both Community Bands I belong to have been cancelled for 4 weeks, minimum, as well as 3 scheduled performances. I suspect 4 weeks cancellation is just the beginning.

@barliman2001 Again, no issues with my connecting.
Regards Tom

@Comeback I always knew there was virtue in sitting in the third chair.

@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