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Here's something a lot less awesome.
In high school, one year the band was asked to play Stairway to Heaven for the graduation ceremony. A high school band.
Our first chair trumpet said "screw that", because it was as lame as it sounds and she wanted to continue to have a social life.
The conductor asked me to play it because I could play any of the brass instruments (I was first chair french horn) and there was a huge trumpet solo, and I said yes.
Even if this doesn't sound incredibly lame on it's face, understand that the trumpet player was pretty hot, I'd had designs on her for months and actually had a shot, and playing the solo reduced that shot to a zero percent chance of success.
I live with that regret to this day.
Solo was fun, though, even if it was lame.
damn.. the female trumpet players I've known were always meh.
& if the one you knew was1st & was playing solos... her embouchure must have been magnificent.
