You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The trumpet is forceful.
I was curious about experimenting with different colors - kind of like having an expanded orchestra. Suddenly, instead of just writing for strings, you can add bassoon and oboe and brass. I like these extreme differences in sounds right next to each other.
I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.
I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.
I do a mean mouth trumpet.
A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
I don't play the tuba.
He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.