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| | CNN.com - Career - Phil Smith, trumpet: 'It's a blessing' - February 22, 2001 |
 | | New York Philharmonic principal trumpet player Phil Smith is the descendent of many centuries of musicians who have used horns to warn, to call, to celebrate, to scare, to soothe and to alert others. |
 | | A young lady who was a Salvationist and a professional trumpet player at the time got the ear of my dad and said, "You know, he ought to audition for Juilliard." I was accepted, and I got a bachelor's degree and a master's degree at Juilliard. |
 | | I have two primary trumpets: I have a primary C trumpet, pitched in (the key of) C, which I use in the orchestra 98.9 percent of the time. |
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