Silvan wrote in
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Pick up ye old trumpet case with trumpet enclosed, secure with a
couple of rubber bands, and head for a musical instrument dealer.

Is there a university nearby, with any kind of a music program? They
always have somebody to whom they can turn, when, to pick an absolutely
random example, the trombone player gets his slide slammed in a band room
door. (That couldn't happen, right? :-0 )

That sweet little Olds you found is a lot like the one my folks bought for
me, back in the early Sixties. It got used as a 'parts horn', when the
budget couldn't hack the reapir cost on a silver Benge, almost 30 years
later. And the Benge was traded against the cost of an Olds Double French
horn, a few years later...

Nothing sounds quite like good, old brass, well played and well maintained.

Keep investing in the kid!

Patriarch