After dinner tonight my son came up to my room with some news. His band teacher (who was also my band teacher back in the day) has asked him to play percussion.  The funny thing is that this band teacher asked me to do the same thing over 20 years ago. He will still play the Trumpet but will also be playing some percussion now. So last night after he told me this, we broke out my old practice pad and bag of sticks/mallets.  I gave him a few pointers and he practiced for pretty much the rest of the night.