It is sobering that in this high-tech world where even your washing machine is computerized, an unknown event for one person can take down an entire community that evolved over a lengthy period of time.

Mine comes with partial deafness on the left side, due to being on a sailboat that was struct by lightning. I went deaf for about 5 minutes when that happened.

I have great difficulty talking on a traditional telephone using the left ear. However, I can hear fairly well using a cell phone on the left side. I think there is something about the difference between an analog signal (traditional phone) and a digital/compressed signal (cell phone). Many compression algorithms cut out some of the intermediate frequencies. I don't know if that makes a difference.

I use a white noise machine when I sleep that seems to help.

@curlydoc Well, I'm sure Henry, Edsel, Walter, and Willy didn't advertise them that way, but yeah...

@j-jericho I think that one might be a "business coupe." Such cars were made for "traveling salesmen." They were 2-seaters with huge trunks for traveling salesmen to carry samples and small inventories.

@j-jericho ...but I don't think any manufacturers included a white "back up" light at that time.

Lots of cars were sold in very basic form, with the expectation that the owner would customize them to their needs. That's how Western Auto got started. (Selling accessories.) Remember Western Auto?

Newer format.

Piano and general music background is very helpful. The things that are different about trumpet are the embouchure (as you noted), tonguing, and breath control. There are different schools of thought about all of those things which you can read about on TrumpetBoards and other places. But we use the tongue and the breath for many things other than playing the trumpet. The embouchure, not so much. The embouchure is therefore both the least intuitive and the thing that requires the greatest muscle development and maintenance.

Yes, Conn/Selmer is a conglomerate that includes Bach plus Steinway pianos and a bunch of other brands. They sell woodwind instruments under the Selmer brand, but I don't think they sell Selmer-branded brass instruments any more.

Yamaha student model is a great place to start. You won't need anything fancier than that for several years. These topics are definitely discussed in the trumpet world. (All the time. You will see lots of threads about this topic.) I'm sure there is a list somewhere, but here are some highlights....

• Most of the big-name players of the big band era played the Martin Committee for some portion of their career. Miles Davis played Committees throughout his entire career, although he also used several other horns at different times. They built the last "real" Committee (second generation) in about 1955. Chris Botti still uses restored Committees exclusively. But you don't want a Committee unless you really know what you want after many years of development as a player.

• The Bach Stradivarius is the most common professional instrument for classical orchestra music as well as all-around, general-purpose use.

• Louis Armstrong had an exclusive deal with Selmer. (Selmer stopped making trumpets some years ago.)

• Harry James used Selmer at some times, but I believe he used the King Silversonic later on.

Greetings, Martin.

I didn't watch the entire video, but it looks like a great start. There are many different things that go into learning the trumpet, but development of the embouchure is the least intuitive. This video looks like a good place to start.

Do you already play other other instruments? Knowledge of music basics from other instruments is helpful in some areas. But there are some things that are unique to trumpet and other brass.