Saturday, February 27, 2010
Louis Armstrong's first trumpet was stolen from his hotel room in New York City in 1926. Thirty years later, he found it in a Detroit pawn shop.
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I found this fact to be intriguing and somewhat amazing. Knowing nothing about trumpets, a quick websearch located the following link:
http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb/f140/pawn-shop-prizes-anyone-find-any-23631.html
Kahne
By Kahne, at September 13, 2007 10:33 AM
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