| To get back on topic, I started playing cornet in second grade and used my fathers Conn 12A Coprion cornet. When it was time to go to High School, I needed to get a trumpet for band. Unfortunately, my dad had passed away and my mom was raising four kids on social security. She wanted to get me something to play, but it obviously couldn't be very expensive. She was speaking to one of her friends one day (whose late husband was also a trumpet player; my dad and he used to play in a jazz combo after WWII). My mom's friend offered to sell her husband's horn for $50 (this was in 1972). I have have had the horn ever since. The horn, a 1939 Bach Strad S/N 46XX; ML w/#7 leadpipe with a 38 bell. |