From second grade Matt Onstad knew he wanted music in his life, but he didn’t know what tool it would take.“ I so deeply wanted to play the saxophone but I couldn’t get a single note out,” he said over the phone. “It was ugly.” He didn’t mesh with a sax and said it broke his heart almost immediately. It wasn’t until Dave Hoffmaster, music teacher at Beaver Dam High School asked that he give the trumpet a shot. Even though drums were his second choice, the trumpet somehow clicked.
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