I used to play the trumpet, way back during when I was nine or ten. Did alright I think. Not really sure on the music, mostly what was out of the book we had.
TPBM owns "Shattered Swords" by Jonathon Parshall.
Nope. Given just exactly how much I hated my german language lessons in school (- the grammar is a killer!), I'd never read a german language book.
That was, until I got interested in BMW motorcycles...