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Perhaps Danny Davis and The Nashville Brass?

These are great stories, guys, Thank you for sharing. After my 10th grade year I attended band camp and took lessons from a Chicowicz student. I went on to study w/him in college. I wish I had lessons when I first began. I had a few with the old director, as I said. He once held the trumpet up to catch heat from the blowing heater. "You have to warm-up first," he said My definition of warm-up changed later!

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 taught for 40 years and preferred to start students on a Bach or Benge 7C, always monitoring their tone and observing how they played. Kept some 5C, etc., around and used them when it seemed the road to go down.

A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all We'll be visiting sick relatives in hopes of cheering them up with home made spice-cake cupcakes.

@Kehaulani I assumed he meant "Easter".

Use a C trumpet, take it down a step and add 2 flats.

You will be back

I enjoy some Klezmer at times. One of my former student's niece earned clarinet performance Masters with an emphasis in Klezmer clarinet.

My current favorite vocal performance - [link text]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3jcDNijz5o&list=RDx3jcDNijz5o&start_radio=1(link url)

That was good to see and hear

Greetings to you

Arkansas here. I spent a few years in Missouri.

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

I taught myself ow to play, beginning in 7th grade. I was sick at home one day and listened to some Bix on old records. We had an old trumpet around the house. Off I went. Our school hired a band director when I was in 9th grade. I went on to major in music and teach it for 40 years

When vibrato is TOO noticeable, I think it is too much. Gilbert Johnson had a strong vibrato in the Philadelphia Orchestra, but it never distracted me.

Greetings to you, Chuck.

I saw that yesterday and enjoyed it. I really liked the B5 bell