I HAVE NOT STARTED PLAYING THE TRUMPET BUT I WANT TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY THE POCKET TRUMPET. WOULD A POCKET TRUMPET BE A GOOD TRUMPET TO START OUT ON OR SHOULD I START WITH THE CORNET?

i am not sure because i have never owned one before but i think you would be safe to start off with a cornet

Though they are cute little attention-getters, and are easy to carry around, pocket trumpets were never intended to be the instrument for a beginning trumpet player. A pocket trumpet plays essentially the same as a standard trumpet or cornet, but if you are serious about learning to play trumpet you will do yourself a huge favor by starting out on a standard Bb trumpet or Bb cornet.

I know this might sound wierd, but i find the trumpet a heck of a lot easier to start out on than the cornet. I played the trumpet for 3 years before getting into high school and after making the wind ensemble, i, for the first time, had to play the Cornet and found it much more difficult. If I were you, id start out on a bach tr300, I used it and it seems very popular

The most likely reason a lot of people find a trumpet easier to play than a cornet is that both the backbore of standard cornet mouthpieces and the overall bore of the instrument are somwewhat smaller than a trumpet. On a cornet the air also has to travel through a couple of more tubing bends before entering the third valve chamber. Those factors combined present more restriction to air flow. However, at least as far as my cornet is concerned, response control is a little tighter than either of my trumpets. That is, I think on a cornet there is not as much tendancy for notes to drift off pitch.