Y'all have been so much help! I let him read these and he's been grinning from ear to ear. Let's see...he won't need braces and his changed voice will almost certainly be baritone or bass like all his male relatives. His lips are medium, I suppose. Someone also suggested that he might need long arms for a trombone..no problem there, at 11, he's already 5'3"! He has to choose his instrument by the first week of August.
Until our fifth daughter chose band (the rest have cheered), we had no clue how instruments were chosen. When she went in for her test, she blew okay into the instruments and then when she told them she had all A's, the band people wanted her on French horn. We were puzzled but the director said that a student who gives extra attention to grades should do the same with a more difficult instrument. He also said it's easier to get a college scholarship if you can play a French horn well. Yessss!
I still can't figure out how trombone players in marching bands keep from running into each other with their horns!
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