How long is this trip going to be? Unless it's going to be a month or something, I don't see how you're going to lose your chops.

Do you have any sort of training mute that you can bring that would fit the trumpet that you plan on bringing?

@Ben Crowell I’m not sure if you have any experience with trumpet, but to my knowledge, especially for a professional, taking more than a few days off isn’t a good thing. Many feel that daily (or approaching that) practice is required to maintain endurance and range.

@BenCrowell a wind player needs to keep their embouchure in top condition, and as with any physical activity a daily workout is essential to stay in shape. I used to play brass, and it requires fine control of the neck, throat, lip and face muscles, as well as strength and stamina.

I think it's more important to minimise the time you play for. Campsites are communal spaces and there's usually someone being loud and annoying at least for a while. As long as it's not too late into the night or goes on for too long it's usually tolerable. So I'd say, find somewhere at / off the edge of the campsite as far away from others as you can reasonably get, and don't practice excessively long and it'll probably be okay.

I'd suggest that playing the revielle at dawn might be received poorly. ;)

@ItalianPhilosophers4Monica I won't downvote this question, but it does show a bit of entitlement to even consider the possibility to bring a trumpet. I am a professional trumpet player and I need to play every day. Well, don't go to a multi-day backpacking trip, then!

@eric duminil not sure how that's entitled. Those are both relevant points of information to my question. If your advice is I don't go at all, point taken.

@Daveduder sorry. I should have been clearer. That was my attempt at explaining downvotes. I might be wrong.

@Daveduder - this is unrelated, but this question is desperately in need of an answer from a professional trumpet player - you may want to consider chiming in! Right now it's mostly other musicians who don't play the trumpet.

@SamWeaver yeah, I ended up asking that as while I've played the trumpet a fair amount through high school (and known a couple of people who went pro), I don't personally have a good sense on what the critical time range for maintaining an embouchure is when one is at the highest levels. Kind of as something to be able to point out to people who argue "just don't practice for X days, it won't make a difference". I'd love to see an answer from Dave or another professional trumpet player

Along nicely for you to please not practice your trumpet while hiking around others.

If I were backpacking/camping and someone started playing the trumpet, I would very strongly dislike that person. I would think that they are very inconsiderate and/or unable to "read the room". Someone else in a comment below suggested that you play the trumpet far away from the campground, and close to an area that is already loud (e.g. beside a busy highway) and I think that was a good suggestion.

You didn't specify where you go backpacking ? Most likely it's a big no for me. It would be hard to imagine something more annoying than a trumpet. People who will be around will be there to enjoy the quiet sounds of nature and relax. Likely, the nature itself and the animals will certainly do well without trumpet sounds. You should keep it to a minimum, like 10 minutes in the morning... or just consider this isn't the right place for a trumpet at all.

Learn to stop and think before playing your trumpet

@ItalianPhilosophers One can justifiably object to someone even just asking whether they should do something if, among other reasons, that thing is a sufficiently bad idea, if it should be obvious that it's a bad idea, if the question implies bad things about the asker or if the question wasn't asked in good faith. I'll let you make your own conclusions about which ones (downvoters/I think) apply here and why.

@NotThatGuy "first backpacking trip" -- Nobody is born knowing trail customs. You want newbie backpackers to come here and ask questions not hear that GO.SE is a rude place and not ask their questions and do something wrong.

@AzorAhai You don't need to know anything at all about trail customs to understand the problem(s) with playing the trumpet in the middle of nature where a bunch of people can (potentially) hear.

@Studoku Thank you for the link. That was the most enjoyable 4 minutes of the last hour. And I video I need to share with about a million people. :)

@AzorAhai FYI, I wouldn't have left a comment at all if someone hadn't come here and tried to tell people how to vote in a dismissive tone (arguably more rude than simply downvoting), especially when I think there are perfectly valid reasons to downvote a question like this one (and many other questions) and especially considering that the question is currently sitting on a score of 28, so the downvotes clearly aren't that significant here.

@NotThatGuy It wasn't rude at all. Remember what the tool tip says. "Lacks research, unclear or unhelpful," not "obviously the answer is no."

@AzorAhai Questions with obvious answers are not useful, and they probably lack research effort too. Not that that has anything to do with whether the comment was rude.

@NotThatGuy So your perspective is the hiking community would be better off if the OP had not been told not to play their trumpet on a hike? I can't say I agree.

@AzorAhai-him- No, my perspective is that the site would've been better off had OP not asked whether they should play their trumpet. Just because something might be for the benefit of the hiking community doesn't mean it belongs here (assuming the question is even real) and just because the particular way the question was asked is objectionable doesn't mean no version of the question belongs here.

And my perspective is also that the hiking community, as well as everyone else, would probably be better off if OP tries to exercise some more common sense and awareness of and empathy for those around them, instead of relying on others to tell them how others might feel.

@AzorAhai-him- If I have to do a double take and ask myself if it's a serious question or a troll post, the question has a serious problem on its own merits. I only considered it seriously after I looked at the OP's profile.