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Robin,

Thanks for the reply. I think you misunderstood when I said that the bar has been raised very high regarding the current level of trumpet playing. This is certainly not untrue, and it is not to say that it wasn't high before. The point was not comparing players of the past to those of the present, but rather to say that TODAY's high level of trumpet playing is likely due to widespread availability of many great pedagogical resources. For example, I use the Thibaud book, and Thibaud uses a combination of his own ideas mixed with Stamp, Bai Lin, Maggio, Cichowicz... Thompson also uses ideas from several other notable pedagogues. Did I clarify well enough?

-Matthew