How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn? Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument.
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Then one day, the junk wagon passed a pawn shop with a gleaming brass trumpet in the window.
To help his mother pay the rent, every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing a tin Horn and collecting stuff people didn\'t want.
He didn\'t even go to school.
How did famous New Orleans jazz trumpet player Louis Armstrong get his first horn? Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real instrument
