Dr. Valve

This summer I'm off to band camp soon, and I'm taking my old trumpet from Aunt Susan because I use it for marching band. The trumpet is real old, and has masking tape over the spot where a spit valve just fell off once. I thought that it would be good to give my trumpet a good cleaning before I went to camp. There is a guy who lives right in our neighberhood, Dr. Valve, who cleans really high end instruments, and agreed to give my trumpet a chem clean on very short notice. He was nice and told us that the trumpet was a great student trumpet. When talking to him, we learned about taps for veterans. Apparently, there was some invention of a bugle that carries a small mp3 thing attached, so you hold it up to your mouth and it plays taps. At Grandpa's funeral, the suspician I had that the bugler wasn't playing was right after all. Now there has been a movement to have taps actually played for our veterans by signing people up and they could just play on regular B flat trumpets. Dr. Valve knows the guy who started that. The bugle man buys bugles on ebay then sends them to Dr. Valve to do dent work, and get them in good condition. We heard that Reed was interested in playing taps as well.

Dr. Valve was really nice. Whe cleaned my trumpet on short notice in time for camp, did dent work, got the slides working better, and put on a new spit valve, and even cut us a bargain. Someday when I'm in high school or college and am good enough I'll play taps for the veterans too. If you are interested in Dr. Valve you can use this link to go to his website at http://doctorvalve.com/