Oh goodness, you are a serious musician. That's a very nice credential!

Chuck, here's a short story you might enjoy. As you know, I am a flugelhorn player. I picked up flute in college when the other music majors needed a piece played and no one played flute. Thirty years later, I was regularly the guest artist in an area college jazz ensemble, on lead trumpet. One summer, the director called up and asked if I would play again, but there was a catch: he needed me on tenor sax. I told him I never played sax. He said "no problem, I'll give you one over the summer".

So I learned the school's beat-up Bundy, worked my way up to an Otto Link 6, and played lead tenor that fall. I then bought the soprano about 12 years ago, and I use it when my trumpet chops get tired. Along the way, I picked up a Yamaha WX5, and on one show I played the lead trumpet book, the flute book, and the acoustic bass book using the Yamaha!

In case you ever ran into some of the tenor players I worked with, Andy Haig (who had the Mark VI I now have) and Leo Russo were the best. I was also the trumpet player for Nick Brignola, Grammy-winning bari player and Woody Herman alum - a real burner.

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