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.

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

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

@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

@Kehaulani I assumed he meant "Easter".

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

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.

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?

God bless

That "Russian Sailor's Dance" in the encores section was very fine

@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

@masterwannabe https://www.horn-u-copia.net/Reference/display.php?thisrec= 306

I practice some each day and made short videos of me Christmas carol playing around town and on friends' lawns. I also visited some historical sites/cemeteries and played hymns. I'll continue that soon. It has been good to put myself under a bit of performance pressure because I am still recovering from surgery and a dental procedure.

Been playing a few hours?? Buzz the mouthpiece five minutes on the easiest pitch for you, take a break, do it again. Take a break then play a few long tones on low C and D. Stay relaxed. Add low B and Bb or Eb when you feel like it. Repeat that everyday for a few days. Do a couple of sessions per day.

I have developed the quadrangle so we can give up the triangle and still enjoy the 'ding'.

HA! Choleric for me. I've never had cholera in my life

@Dale-Proctor That's a cool pic!!

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

I use: Al Cass, Blue Juice...I used straight kerosene while in college. Dad had a service station with a kerosene pump.

Very enjoyable! I had not seen those pictures of his younger days. Thanks