EB White - novel - 1970 - p. 141 

The Trumpet of the Swan is a novel about a swan named Louis who, born without a voice, endeavors to learn to play the trumpet as a surrogate voice. His motivation stems largely from his desire to impress a female swan named Serena; Louis’s parents fear that without a voice, he’ll be unable to attract a mate, so his father breaks into a music store to procure a trumpet. Louis is befriended by a human boy named Sam, who proposes to Louis that the latter pursue work as a trumpeter at the summer camp Sam attends, and thus Louis’s professional career is launched.

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