# Any trumpet players out there?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 20, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-trumpet-players-out-there/760451 "2016-07-20T21:55:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-trumpet-players-out-there/760451/21 "2016-07-23T15:17:52Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Everybody loves a tuba player but even a beat-up secondhand tuba will cost you a couple thousand bucks. It ain’t a cheap hobby.

OTOH, you can get yourself a nice used trumpet for not too much money. I’ve bid on a few on EBay drunk late at night and never paid more than a hundred dollars or so for some very nice horns. I currently have about five or six cornets and trumpets on hand.

For a real bargain, though, buy a trombone. The fewer mechanical parts on an instrument, the less you pay. Saxophone = expensive; trumpet = inexpensive. A tenor 'bone only has a slide manipulated by the right hand, so they’re downright cheap.

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