"A tool good enough to be so used and not too good"

C.S. Lewis That Hideous Strength

Bach Strad Chicago C
Schilke Bb B3
Raw brass Bb Bach TR300
Yamaha Eb
1931 Conn 22B New York Symphony

I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced.- Wynton Marsalis

“I get asked this every once in awhile you know, how do you deal with fear? And all that stuff that most common you got a tough piece to play and I said, if that’s the way you are you don’t belong there.” – Bud Herseth