When I was in 4th grade I remember sitting on the curb watching the Memorial day parade make it's way across the bridge. There's this fancy ceremony where they throw a wreath into the river in memory of the veterans, and the High School Band played music for that. The trumpet section happened to have stopped in front of me, and I'm like "mommy mommy, look at
those!," and I started making all sorts of noise about the shiny loud things. I think one of them of the players almost fell over laughing
In 5th grade, I had my mind set on playing a trumpet, but we had to have two choices, just in case. Both of the high school directors were at the elementary school, to offer advice, and they said that both trumpet, and my second pick (sax) would be very good for me. Needless to say, I picked the shiny loud one.