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Learn how to play the mouth trumpet! (Or have a good laugh as you fail!)

Have you ever wanted to learn to play the mouth trumpet? I recently stumbled upon Emma Nissen, a singer/songwriter who plays a mean mouth trumpet-her mouth trumpet is so good, I swear it sounds like ...

“My legs began to shake and my fingers cramped": What it’s like to play the trumpet non-stop for 25 hours

But the endurance champion of them all has to be Kuzhalmannam Ramakrishnan, an Indian percussionist and teacher who back in ...
Orange County Register

That trumpet you heard in latest ‘Star Wars’? This Pacific Symphony musician played it

When Barry Perkins puts a trumpet to his lips, instrument and man meld into one and the notes fill your soul. If that sounds like hyperbole, you haven’t heard Perkins play. Or more likely you have – ...
Los Angeles Times

Re-creating sounds of the trumpet masters

Sometimes it seems as though there’s almost nothing Arturo Sandoval can’t do if he puts his mind to it. The Cuban expatriate, whose life story was the subject of the HBO film “For Love or Country: The ...
Purdue University

Professional trumpet player turns lip balm created in kitchen into successful business

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Professional trumpet player Dan Gosling began concocting his ChopSaver Lip Care balm after a student told him about his swift recovery from a lip injury sustained in a marching ...