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Dick Johnson started playing the trombone in the seventh grade. He wanted to play the French horn. "When I was in the sixth grade," he says, "we had a music room at the elementary school and they had all the instruments of the orchestra in big pictures and I saw the French horn. The French horn has all these curls and I thought, 'Oh, man, that would be beautiful.' So I went home and told my dad I wanted to play the French horn. He said, 'No, you're not. You're going to play the trombone because we've got a trombone out at the farm."  Read more