<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I played trumpet all the way through school. There were 3 of us gals and the rest were fellas. Suffice it to say we never sat first, and it had nothing to do with our playing ability. I got second one time playing Basin Street Blues. They did not speak to me the rest of the school year. <div>Funny,<br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Susan Binks</div><div>630 536-9370</div><div>523 Hill Avenue</div><div>Glen Ellyn, IL 60137</div><div><a href="mailto:susanbinks5354@att.net">susanbinks5354@att.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Bettie Downing wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Well, be careful how much psycho-analysis you try to put on trumpet players because when I was in high school I dated a trumpet player for a long time and his buddies were also in the trumpet section. In private some of them were the most insecure people I had ever met, yet they had chosen an instrument that was way OUT there, so they were fearful people who were brave enough to put themselves in frightening situations. They were tight-wire walkers. I relate them to actors. Insecure, frightened, yet so brave and willing to put themselves at risk. And that's just the ones I knew.<br><br><br>On Feb 1, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Bill wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hard to believe trumpet players are so conceited. Are they just joking?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yes, that was a joke but, like most jokes, it is funny because we can relate<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to it on some level. There is a certain personality that gravitates toward<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">playing that trumpet. Of course, seriously speaking, some of the nicest<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">people I have ever known are trumpet players. But, to varying degrees, we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">share a common personality trait of, let's say, having a certain presence.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hard to explain because I'm not sure I understand it all myself. I'll bet<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">somebody has done some research on the influence of personality on which<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">instruments people choose to play. <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bill McCann <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.DancingDots.com">www.DancingDots.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tel: [001] 610-783-6692<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: <a href="mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org">menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">[<a href="mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org">mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org</a>] On Behalf Of Bettie Downing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 12:23 PM<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Cross posted question<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">about trumpet fingering<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hard to believe trumpet players are so conceited. Are they just joking?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 1, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Bill wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Glad you liked the jokes but apologies for veering seriously off-topic.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I'll try to reform. I don't get to play trumpet much these days but I <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">do remember some things about it like you are supposed to blow into <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the small end, right?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Uh, so much for reforming. OK, I will stop now. But, attempting to <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">come back closer to the stated purpose of our list here, it would be <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">interesting to conduct a study to find out if the percentage of blind <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">people who take up the trumpet is significantly higher than that of <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">sighted musicians. It is my most unscientific and, as yet, <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">un-provable theory the percentage actually is higher. Or maybe it's <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">just that we trumpet players tend to make more noise than everyone else?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Oops, there I go again.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">But you have to admit that it's hard to forget somebody who you are <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">just meeting for the first time who says something like:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hi, I'm a trumpet player too and I'm better than you! <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Bill McCann<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992 <a href="http://www.DancingDots.com">www.DancingDots.com</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Tel: [001] 610-783-6692<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">-----Original Message-----<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">From: <a href="mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org">menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">[<a href="mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org">mailto:menvi-discuss-bounces@menvi.org</a>] On Behalf Of Bettie Downing<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 11:01 AM<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] [braille-music-chat] Cross posted question<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">about trumpet fingering<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Bill, I loved your 2 jokes and passed them on to our orchestra director at<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">church and the lead trumpeter. 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