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Author: derf5585
Date: 2015-07-08 02:44
Have you ever been hit with a trombone slide while playing?
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Author: CarlT
Date: 2015-07-08 03:37
Not yet, but this past 4th of July I attended a free concert, and I declare I spent a lot of my time watching a trombonist come within an inch, or so, of the sax player's head in front of him.
Although the music was very good, I still was amused at how close his slide came to the (appently unaware) saxophone player's head.
So far as I know, he never actually hit him though.
CarlT
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-07-08 05:32
I've been sprayed on by a trombone player emptying his slide who was sat behind me, so I got up and emptied the condensation from the top coil of my bari sax over him in retaliation.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Ursa
Date: 2015-07-08 06:48
+1 Chris P...
One of my conductors has often said, "Trombones are for people who can't read music and move their fingers at the same time."
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Author: derf5585
Date: 2015-07-08 06:55
Scottville Clown Band
http://www.scottvilleclownband.com/
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Author: locke9342
Date: 2015-07-08 08:57
The trombone the player behind me was playing had a leaky spit valve, so it was raining for quit a while. Also while playing trombone i pinched my hand quit badly between the slide a few times
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Author: donald
Date: 2015-07-08 11:01
I've been poked in the head repeatedly by a violin bow (in opera pit), and in 1995 I played a 4th of July gig in USA where i was hit by flying rocks. Instead of firing guns in the 1812 they had burried explosives to set off, however they had underestimated how DEEP to bury them and at each blast dirt and rocks were sent flying into the air. None of this endangered the audience, but some members of the orchestra were hit!
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Author: Curinfinwe
Date: 2015-07-08 19:36
I've played in the Ceremonial Guard band in Ottawa for several years, and just about every year I get good wallop from the bass drummer during a countermarch!
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Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2015-07-08 20:29
I lost a bit of hearing sitting next to trombones at the 4th of July outdoor concert....and got sprayed a number of times with mist intended for the slide. At least it was clean mist. I seem to always forget my ear plugs for these outdoor things, and often pay the price. I also did not intend to play this year, just watch, but someone saw me and I got conscripted.
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-07-08 21:09
All sounds very 3Stooges-esque. Could be more entertaining than the actual music.
I would be interested to know what goes on in military bands where any retaliation would need to be pretty much invisible and silent.
Stan in Orlando
EWI 4000S with modifications
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Author: Ursa
Date: 2015-07-08 21:25
Stan: A Dixie cup full of water, ostensibly for soaking reeds, may be "accidentally" placed upon the chair of someone just as they are about to sit down.
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-07-09 06:37
Ursa- that's really "nice".
I vaguely recall at my brief University of Houston marching band* stint in fall 1971 (yes friends almost 44 years ago) that at certain points of the show everyone was supposed to swing their horns left and right with the beat. That could and did go badly on occasion. Does this still go on in high school or college marching bands?
*Bill Moffit Soundpower arrangements- still in use I bet. "Basin Street Blues" anyone?
Stan in Orlando
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Author: Ursa
Date: 2015-07-10 05:14
I just checked my Scottville Clown Band folio and, indeed, the Soundpower arrangement of "Basin Street Blues" is the one we use.
We don't swing our horns to "Basin" though--at sit-down outdoors concerts, we recruit a group of unsuspecting young ladies from the audience to do a Radio City Rockettes chorus line up in front of the band. Always.
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Author: MSK
Date: 2015-07-10 06:00
I've also gotten hit by a violin bow and been guilty of elbowing others while playing violin.
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Author: bbrandha
Date: 2015-07-11 06:15
I play in a horseback band. I think I have been hit with about everything one can be hit with. Drums are the worst, as they stick out the farthest and horses don't usually care if their rider gets run into things.
Mostly, though, we have problems with instruments hitting the ground. Trombones are wimpy. They can't take much of a hit before they refuse to play anymore.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-07-11 19:41
I've probably told this story here too many times, but in my high school orchestra in days of yore, I sat in front of a good first trombone player who thought it most amusing to slip his slide over my shoulder and empty his spit valve down the front of my blouse. He was a nice guy, not a bully -- just had a quirky sense of humor. He grew up to be a police officer. I never did figure out a good way to retaliate, although eventually I persuaded the conductor to set up our rows farther apart. I don't think the conductor gave half a squeak about my spit-valve problem but the argument about potential hearing loss did sway him.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-07-11 23:02
Lelia- I can't imagine that behavior would go over well in 2015, times they have changed- some for the good and some not. Would be interesting to be pulled over by that guy and to tell him- let me go this time plus the next 5 and maybe we'll be even.
Stan in Orlando
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