GB and Fiona, if you don't play an instrument, you should try.
Ask me how!
You might not believe this, but it is true. Trumpet was my second choice. It was 5th grade and we got to pick instruments to play if we were interested. The music store was out of saxophone's which is what I really wanted.Oh nice, GB.
My first choice in middle school was trumpet but they all got taken so I ended up playing alto sax, which turned out to be pretty cool!
Never made it to first chair tho, I battled it out with my arch-nemesis and took first chair a couple times but that **** always managed to win it back.