DataDrake Retired. But I have 9 years of trumpet under my belt.
When I refused to go to any more piano lessons with the evil spinster across the street, my parents bought me a Conn cornet for Christmas one year. I played in an elementary school band, about 6th grade, I think. The guys with trumpets made fun of my cornet. I think it might have been a "mine's loner than yours kinda thing."