| Save your money to pay the players. Buying cheap horns will give you nothing but a collection of cheap horns that you cannot play, and nobody worth their salt will want to play.
Anyone you hire will have their own, better horns that they've come to know over DECADES of playing.
The horns you hear on recordings are played by guys and gals with decades of experience, who have dedicated their lives to their art.
Comparing playing brass instruments to playing an electric bass is silly. Fretted instruments can be learned very quickly versus one requiring an embouchure. It took me 5 years to become a very good bass player in a recording, touring band, but after 30 years of playing trumpet I can tell you that brass instruments are some of the most specialized and difficult instruments to learn, let alone play well enough to put down on tape.
Having instruments laying around is cool, but don't expect to sound good on them.
Greg
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