For thirty years, I taught at the University of Northern Iowa in various capacities. When I started my tenure there, we had established a very active Brass Quintet which toured all of Iowa playing concerts and giving clinics nearly every Friday during the school year. One such year, we logged in over fifty-two concerts. Because of this concerted effort to recruit the best brass players in the state we began to feel the growing pains of our ever enlarging trumpet studios. Mr. Keith Johnson and I were teaching nearly eighteen trumpet majors each and eventually we added an additional instructor…