With 24 total trumpets valued at between $2,500 to $4,000 (we'll call it $3,500 each) I'd say this performance requires about $84,000 in gear, or about the cost of one Bassoon Quintet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnsjJuNMPsI&list=PLOObZQ9VozjBfvck_qJFbPYJ5UritdOaQ
Why didn't they win! I think they traded substance for pageantry. That's fantastic and was probably shocking to everyone there just how cool and different this performance was from all the other trumpet ensembles at NTC 2012. They played awesomely and sold the whole thing, which got them to the finals. The arrangement itself leans really heavily on trumpet tropes and half of the piece, "How Many Trumpets Does it Take" is mostly jazz. Not that jazz is invalid, but I imagine in an adjudicated academic contest setting, the direction they went was very risky. It's a testament to their execution that they got as far as they did on such an unorthodox arrangement.
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