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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog
I don't think i've ever heard a more prolific instrument that I wish I could play, but never will since it leads to some cellular dmage or something.
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What kind of cellular damage does it lead to?
Another great thing about the instrument is that trumpet players seemed to get first priority when it came to leading jazz bands (Miles Davis/Louis Armstrong etc. etc.). Why was this? Was it the piercing war cry of the trumpet which knocked the other players into submission? Did they realise that pianists were shy and saxophonists high so the only lead option they had was the trumpet man? And the trumpet being as hard as it is to play, he wasn't going to storm off down some melodic alleyway where the others couldn't follow. Who knows?
But we can be sure that the trumpet rocks (and jazzes) and that the great trumpeters of yesteryears would be turning in their graves if they could hear the way some ska bands use their brass section!