I have got some intonation issues to fix and some more practicing to do but I decided to put it out anyway to keep me motivated to improve. Authentically sharing the weaknesses, being vulnerable, sets a good foundation to build up on.

***Trumpet playing tip: When playing the piccolo trumpet it is easy to "over blow". We trumpeters tend to put a little too much air into the small piccolo and when doing that the sound suffers. If we back off a bit with the air it's easier to get a clearer and better sound. I myself could have used a bit less air in this Abblasen Trumpet Fanfare... and a bit less force.***

- Abblasen is a baroque trumpet fanfare believed to be composed by Gottfried Reiche.
In a famous painting of Gottfried Reiche, he is holding a piece of paper with two lines of music written on it. The trumpet fanfare Abblassen is a reconstructed of what appears to be on that manuscript in the portrait.
No one knows if Gottfried really wrote the music that appears in the painting or if the version of the "Trumpet Fanfare Abblassen" that is played today is an accurate transcription of the manuscript.
The piece is usually performed in the key of D, and it spans two octaves of the trumpet's range. A vinyl recording of a version by Don Smithers, played on an eight-foot baroque trumpet, was used as the theme song to the long-running CBS News Sunday Morning for almost 20 years until CBS opted to switch out the vinyl recording with a clearer digital recording performed by Doc Severinsen on a piccolo trumpet.--

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