[DOC] [TLE] Louis Armstrong buys a cornet | Music | The Guardian [PAR] Jun 16, 2011 ... Louis Armstrong with the rest of the 'Waif's Home Colored Brass ... Save for later 
Article saved ... Nevertheless it was the instrument with which he would take the 
first ... He learned to live on the streets until, in his early teens, various ... The big 
band recordings made in Los Angeles at the start of the 30s... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 6: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists | Jazz: W. W. ... [PAR] He received his first cornet from the immigrant Jewish family that owned one of ... 
New Orleans Colored Waif's Home for 18 months, where he received 
rudimentary ... Armstrong changed that tradition by inspiring a new generation of 
musicians, both ... He learned to play a number of instruments including piano, 
cello, and... [DOC] [TLE] Louis Armstrong - Trumpet Player, Singer - Biography.com [PAR] May 20, 2016 ... Learn more at Biography.com. ... Louis Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo," "Pops" 
and, later, "Ambassador ... He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys. 
... band into what is generally regarded as the first jazz big band. ... with Tate in 
1926, Armstrong finally switched from the cornet to the trumpet. [DOC] [TLE] Louis Armstrong | About Louis Armstrong | American Masters | PBS [PAR] Jul 6, 2005 ... Born in New Orleans on August 4, 1901, Louis Satchmo Armstrong ... 1913, he 
was remanded to the New Orleans Colored Waif's Home for Boys. ... He left the 
Waif's Home in 1914, and began to play the cornet around New Orleans. ... He 
began playing with the large bands that were popular at the time,... [DOC] [TLE] Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia [PAR] Armstrong developed his cornet playing skills by playing in the band of the New 
Orleans Home for Colored Waifs, where he had been sent multiple times for... [DOC] [TLE] Ray Winbush - Daniel Louis Armstrong was born on August 4 ... [PAR] He is considered the greatest jazz musician who ever lived. ... to buy a used 
cornet (a brass musical instrument similar to a trumpet), which he taught himself 
to play. ... at the Colored Waif's Home, it was time for Armstrong to return home to 
his mother. ... While a large number of New Orleans' musicians moved north, 
many... [DOC] [TLE] Louis Armstrong | Entries | KnowLA, Encyclopedia of Louisiana [PAR] May 19, 2011 ... This entry covers the life and influence of Louis Armstrong, jazz musician and 
composer ... and later switching to the trumpet, a closely related instrument. ... A 
year later, he was arrested for firing a pistol and remanded to the Colored Waifs 
Home. There he learned to play the cornet and read music, thanks to... [DOC] [TLE] Louis Armstrong and the Colored Waif's Home for Boys - JAZZIZ ... [PAR] Jul 4, 2016 ... Prior to the establishment of the Colored Waif's Home on November 1906, ... man 
who would arrest Armstrong years later, was convinced that such an ... nor the 
place where he first discovered his interest in the cornet. ... to the different 
instruments, noticing the things they played and how they played them. [DOC] [TLE] Page 1 Page 2 // y whole life, my soul, my whole spirit is to blow that ... [PAR] He was sent to the Colored Waifs' Home for Boys where he lived ... learned to 
play the cornet and became the leader of the WaifsI Home Band. Released from
... [DOC] [TLE] Louis Armstrong - Biography of a Masterful Trumpet Player [PAR] Four years later, when Armstrong was six years old, he moved back in with his ... 
to buy a used cornet (a brass musical instrument similar to a trumpet), which he 
taught ... The next morning, a judge sentenced him to the Colored Waif's Home 
for an ... While a large number of New Orleans' musicians moved north, many... [DOC] [TLE] on Louis Armstrong and the Colored Waifs Home - The Wonderful ... [PAR] Dec 22, 2014 ... Karst tells the story

Question: Armstrong learned cornet at the Colored Waifs' Home; he switched to this larger instrument later
Answer: Trumpet