Greg Monks is a retired musician & author. He has written extensively about 19th century brasswinds, his epic Fantasy novel The Last Elf King has been read almost 500,000 times, he writes well-received light novels under a pseudonym for the Japanese market, he writes "trashy romance novels for money" (his own words), and lives in a very rural area with his eight cats. His Sci-Fi novel Boom Boom Kitty has just surpassed 350,000 readers!
www.fictionpress.com/s/3359442/1/Boom-Boom-Kitty
www.fictionpress.com/s/3360160/1/The-Last-Elf-King
www.alsmiddlebrasspages.com/brasshistory/
www.horn-u-copia.net/
For good information on playing trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn, check out Chase Sanborn:
youtube.com/@chasesanborn
A good source/resource for antique brasswinds is Frank Hosemann's eBay store: www.ebay.ca/str/gmu6?_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l2563
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