Come on now. Isn this Hosaphone(tm) thing just a big joke?
You think THIS is a joke??? At our alma mater trumpet students are now required to wrap their instruments in duct tape to deaden the sound, mouthpieces designed by a feline cost hundreds of dollars, every day trumpets are being frozen to improve their ballistic properties, and heavy valve caps are minutely adjusted for optimum resonance. To cope with all this they are encouraged to take prescription drugs in order to make it through a performance. In playing a Hosaphone(tm) you can come to terms with the real essence of the brass instrument. A Hosaphone(tm) is so close to a trumpet with bits of plumbing added you can begin to see that it is the equipment that is between your ears that is what you seek to improve in this journey. The ultimate instrument is within you and the search to seek out the perfect one has to be done internally, not externally. We turn to one of the great philosophers of the 20th century, Cher, who boldly stated in a shampoo commercial aired on national TV in the
