All of my community band gigs have gone away (mostly postponed) and rehearsals are on hold. We (more than half of the members) keep in touch via a FB page. Given that some, more fortunate members are now working from home, they may have some extra time which was spent commuting. Less fortunate members may have way too much time on their hands. Band members range from professionals, teachers to (very) occasional practicers.
I offered the following list of suggestions, promising to go a little more in depth on each one in future posts. My current project is # 2 on the list, trying to brush up both trombone skills and reading concert pitch bass clef parts, but am trying to keep on with most of the other suggestions.

1. Play along with YouTube videos of other concert bands performing “our” charts.
2. Brush up on your reading skills - maybe transposing or reading other (bass?) clef parts.
3. Write some tunes/songs. Keep it short and sweet at first.
4. Listen - really listen - to music. Listen to the back-catalogue of a fave artist, maybe delve into a new genre
5. Improvise – if you haven’t tried any improv work, now could be the time.
6. Do some home recording – I mean multi-track, sound on sound.

If you have addition time stuck at home, I hope you're able to make good use of it. Things will get worse before they get better.
take care.

@ROWUK Great to hear that you're back playing and getting decent results. FWIW, my dad who had stopped playing cornet after getting a full top denture was talked into playing euphonium when he starting transporting me to band practice way back when. He used a denture adhesive called Fast Teeth which seemed to work for him. He did use a lot of it. I remember him saying that if he didn't remove and clean the denture straight after rehearsal or a gig, it was a couple of days before he could remove it :-).

@administrator Will watch with interest. I like reading about impressions of various horns as part of the overall mix on this site - so I'm not sure that a separate site will add or detract from that mix.
Haven't thought through how this might work, but how about an option (a button to push?) to have a review on this forum automatically post to RateMyAxe? I guess that this would require a TB user to have registered on RMA - maybe not, reviews from TB could simply be credited to this board, could also drive more traffic here.
Similar affiliate links with other instrument groups could quickly build a broad range of content into the site. The multiplier effect could also make the site commercially viable and provide a decent return on your efforts.

A lighter moment in the grim saga of Australia's bush fires as a Scottish reporter is introduced to a deadly drop bear....

@Vulgano-Brother - nailed it VB. I don’t hear discussions comparing the Beatles, Stones, Doors, ABBA et al with the myriad cover bands out there.

Is there a behavioural trait that is peculiar to trumpet players?

Maybe we should coin a new collective noun...

A “comparison” of trumpet players ???

@ROWUK not quite sure what you mean by "resonating at the whole wavelength" and "hear the overtone". When I play Bb3 or Bb2 (pedal) I hear the same pitch as a pure sine wave at those frequencies.
Speed of sound ~= 343 metres/second.
Length of Bb trumpet = 1.48 meters
Frequency = Speed of sound/wavelength 343/1.48 = 231 Hertz (Bb3 = 233.08 Hertz).
At “Low C” – A#/Bb3 the trumpet is one wavelength long.
Speed of sound ~= 343 metres/second.
Length of Bb trumpet ~= 1.48 meters
Frequency = Speed of sound/wavelength 343/1.48 = 231 Hertz -near enough to Bb3.

I think I know where you are coming from Rowuk, with the reference to the actual spectra produced. I'd like to see spectra produced by some calibrated lab kit, but my Mickey Mouse setup (Zoom mike with iPhone, wave file fed into Audicity) shows the following...

I used a flugelhorn to produce the samples (FWIW) because pedal C slots a whole lot better and is more in tune than on a trumpet – you alluded to the small size of the bell at pedal C. The flugel also has a larger taper than a trumpet, I’m not making any assertions on this point but both the bell size and taper may change the playing of pedal notes. Important however is the that tubing length is the same. I’m guessing that the pedal C graph is muddier because the lower fundamental frequency means that harmonics will be closer together – and the spectrum analyser in Audicity is not great.
The chart for Bb3 indicates that 2nd, 3rd and 4th harmonics are stronger than the fundamental pitch, but the fundamental is certainly what we hear.

@Trumpetsplus

@ Rowuk, I guess this is totally the wrong thread on which to be pedantic and point out that pedal C on a trumpet is resonating at a half wavelength (of the horn). It is relevant to how a trumpet works.

@Kehaulani Performing live with sound reinforcement, balance is the domain of the person at the mixing desk. Fold back is better managed now with the option of earpieces delivering a mix that makes it easier to blow in tune and resist the temptation to blow one’s tits off trying to achieve balance (or even just hearing yourself).