I did. My folks had an old York trumpets around the house. One day while in the 7th grade I became inspired listening to some Bix on old 78s. I picked up the trumpet and started. This was in '61. I could read a little music from earlier piano lessons. There had been a school band in the town years before, but it folded. One of my sisters wrote my out a fingering chart as best as she could remember from playing clarinet. I learned mostly alternate fingerings. For me, Bb was all three valves, D was 1st/3rd in any octaves. One day the other sister heard me trying to play repeated notes. "Why don't you tongue those?" she I asked. I had no idea what she meant...lol. After a while, the former director began coming back to his music store in town on Saturdays. I took some lessons and got a beginner book from him. When I hit 9th grade our school re-started band. I went on to major in music in college, get my BA, MME, Specialist all in music/music ed and taught for 40 years.

@dr-go said in Played high school trumpet:

What I most loved about high school band... is dating clarinet players. That's what REALLY developed my embouchure.

Yeah. I married one

It has removed the smell of musicians who formerly played on it!!!

@Kehaulani I assumed he meant "Easter".

I recall when beginner instruments had no first valve thumb saddle, and the third valve slide always had an adjustable throw ring that could be removed for a lyre.

Dr. Downing, 26th NC Regt. Band, sent me several of that group's recordings several years ago. I discovered "Butcher's and Drover's March" in a museum here in Arkansas and provided it to him. The band's arranger produced a band arrangement from the piano score and the 6th performed it. The march was from 1860's Philadelphia and composed by the first black band leader in the city. I believe his name was Johnson. I ran the Ark. 5th Regt. Band for a few years. We played in 4 states and performed for the national SCV convention. Never could afford replica instruments, but the Robb Stewart horns looked great.

I like me some English. It's all ok.

I, too, have recovered from a triple by-pass. It was a shocking diagnosis for me because I had very little in the way of symptoms. I just took it easy regarding playing. What got me was that I developed a tooth infection and that is quite dangerous for a by-pass patient. I lost my two front bottom teeth. Playing with a partial plate is ok, but different. My embouchure had to be adjusted a little.
EVERYONE READING THIS: GET YOURSELF CHECKED! DON'T LET A HEART PROBLEM SURPRISE YOU!! NOT EVERYONE FEELS A SYMPTOM.

You can't fight in here. This is the War Room. (some will know )

These have been almost the first thing of the day I play since 1970. Then I go to tonguing, then some scales, Clarke. How about you all?

@Charles77 Glad you are here, and good luck. Got a horn yet? Get a mouthpiece and start buzzing a bit everyday. Keep relaxed and breathe natural/deep.

I went through some of that. I finally lost 4 bottom front teeth to infection. My partial plate works well. While your waiting to see what transpires increase the speed of you air stream a bit. Your posture doing ok while playing? That affects me a lot.

@Brett-Duchon I think I would have said, "It's none of your business!" ... or something less polite

Play it all.

I have seen one of those.

God bless!

Greetings, and welcome among us.

Blessed Easter to all.

Getchell Bk 2 helped me. Bk 1 and Sigmund Herring studies are also great for transposing.

Today I played on an old army Conn trumpet from the early fifties. Satin silver with gold wash inner bell. I got it for $25.00 years ago. I tried my Marcinkiewicz model 3 mouthpiece. Mercy! That was sweet I'll try again tomorrow to see if I was just dreaming LOL