Root-Toot-Tooting For Home Team

After a four-decade absence, I was tooting my trumpet once again at an Eastern Washington University football game. Well, whaddya know. Guess you can go back. Pity my lip didn’t join me Friday night. No surprises there, of course. Nixon was still corrupting the White House the last time I logged any serious practice time. But I wasn’t about to let a little thing like a case of the flubber chops stop me. With most of the student musicians gone for winter break, my alma mater was in a desperate fix to fill the band for its nationally televised playoff game against Villanova/ Doug Clark , SR. More here .

Question: Did you ever play in a school band? Or pep band? Which instrument? What do you think of the experience?