I never thought about it either . . nor care. 
Why is it taught ascending could be because it's easier to play the lower notes which get more challenging as one ascends. Therefore, easier to harder. This is relative, of course.
But the explanation above about violins being an added vs. subtractive motion may also have some validity.
barliman - is that a Gala Band you play in? I did a lot f ballroom dance contests in Germany. I liked them because they were so well organized and the music was fun.
Another saying is, "You know what they call the guy who's last in his medical class?" . . "Doctor."
barliman - "Usually, the run started off on Easter Sunday at about 4 am in a freezing church . . "
In Germany,we used to play a saint's day by starting the day at a castle ruin at the top of a hill, overlooking the town. That was also freezing, so I can relate to you. The good thing was that, after scaling the hill in the early morning and freezing weather, a case of beer was waiting for us at the top.
Or, you can be like me and work under the radar for decades. 
@flugelgirl said in Professional musicians on this board question:
I’ve been making money playing gigs for 35 years, since I was 15 years old.
You're fifty!? Man, if you wouldn't take this wrong but . . you look great!
A guy walks into an auto parts store and says to the clerk,
“I’d like a new air freshener for my Yugo.”
The guy behind the counter shakes his hand and says,
“OK, sounds like a fair trade.”
@Niner said in Professional musicians on this board question:
I was wondering how many of you have ever played on commercially produced recordings that may have been widely distributed.
The Air Force band I was in did weekly radio broadcasts. I don't know which ones were put on disc. I have done radio and T.V shows all over. I did recordings on sax and flute but not trumpet. I haven't played on, but have conducted on, records and have compositions and arrangements recorded.
Any of you work with any nationally famous artists?
Bob Hope, Leslie Uggams, John Denver, The Mills Brothers, Ann Jillian, Herb Jeffries, Carlene Carter, Ralph Emery, Jiggs Whigham, Lou Marini to name a few. I worked with Japanese and European musicians but you probably wouldn't know them.
Anybody actually get a regular check from playing trumpet?
Trumpet as an Air Force bandsman and as a performer in a soul band. On sax, in several pop bands and big bands. Horn in Royal Hawaiian Band and Tokyo Youth Symphony. Paid individual gigs or steady salaries. At any rate, I have made a full time living off of music since1966.
Yeah, I'm not meaning to imply that no one needs to do this. Just stating that I never did that.
Sorry to see you go. When you get bored, you've always got a home, here.
Never filed a mute in my life. Aren't they made with malleable corks that work themselves in?
@GeorgeB said in Having to play in too many sharps?:
@Trumpetsplus said in Having to play in too many sharps?:
@GeorgeB QED
Sorry, Ivan, my ignorance is probably going to show here: What Is QED?
Check google.
@Dr-Mark said in Having to play in too many sharps?:
All you have to do is keep the second valve down (except for Bb to
and then mess around with valves 1 & 3 until you create something.
Doesn't have anything to do with mutes, rather "cheating" on fingering. One day Don Jacoby was sitting in with the North Texas One O'clock Band that had an ungodly modulation into a complex key. Everybody discreetly had an eye out for Jake to hear how he improvised in this "bad" key.
When it came time for Jake's solo, he reached across and pulled the tuning slide out so that the horn went into an easier key, played the solo, then put the slide back into its original position, LOL. Street smarts trumped the "correct" but more difficult way of playing.
Trumpets and saxes also transpose into ungodly sharp keys in pop music. Playing in B can be a lot of fun. . . not.
Although I can play violin, I've never thought of it that way. Violins are tuned sharp-keyed friendly.
Most of my sharp-key playing has been in pop bands and I have interpreted their preference for sharp keys not because they are thinking of adding notes up, but because, for the guitars, sharp keys are easier to play in.
I finger this thread with a 2,
As Rudolf Abel said in Bridge of Spies, Would that (the information) help? 
@fels said in Klezmer Music:
Thanks for the responses --- my inquiry was based on comments from other members of the quintet who claimed they were having difficulties finding arrangements. I should have remembered my anthropology professor's admonishment of 45 years ago -- do you your own research!
LOL, my father always had the same come-back when I asked him a question, "Look it up"!
