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 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.

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

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

@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

I'll sound Taps on our courthouse lawn by the vet monuments. Last year it from our front porch.

Use "Corrosion Cracker". I watched a tech use it to loosen a stuck slide on my Schilke and have kept some around ever since.

I can see two finger rings around the third valve side. It may just be the photo angle, but the valve bloc looks positioned more to the back than usual.

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-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