But the instrument became difficult to play after she lost her baby teeth.
VOA: special.2009.10.02
Twentieth-century orchestral composers certainly followed suit, but despite all the interesting, intricate, and even intimate music that's been written for trumpet over the last century and a half, the trumpet has never lost its age-old character as a signaling instrument, an instrument that can call people to attention in a powerful and dramatic way.
In today's feverish atmosphere, even business executives and free-market economists, academics and politicos have lost sight of the need to preserve this utterly critical instrument.