HOW TO BUY A STEP-UP TRUMPET
by Dr. Keith Winking

I started playing cornet in third grade and switched to a professional trumpet my second year - not due to any great improvement on my part, but because my older brother who was going to high school switched from trumpet to French horn and I inherited his trumpet. I thought that I sounded a lot better on the trumpet, but at that time in my life I was also convinced that a new pair of sneakers would enable me to run faster and jump higher.