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Fun With Trombones! (Original Post) Scuba Apr 2013 OP
What, no tromboons?! kentauros Apr 2013 #1
I played the trombone in highschool and HATED it. MiddleFingerMom Apr 2013 #2
I gave up on guitar when I was 16. Scuba Apr 2013 #3
I think it's in Sting's video of his first solo effort "Dream of the Blue Turtles" (a GREAT album... MiddleFingerMom Apr 2013 #6
So you were a teenage tromboner, as well . . . CrazyOrangeCat Apr 2013 #5
I used to get drunk and march up and down my street with it. MiddleFingerMom Apr 2013 #7
HAHAHAA!! CrazyOrangeCat Apr 2013 #8
I played euphonium as a teenager. kentauros Apr 2013 #9
Very Cool! CrazyOrangeCat Apr 2013 #4

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
1. What, no tromboons?!
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:24 PM
Apr 2013

Last edited Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:24 AM - Edit history (1)



That was great!

I'm curious what was the show, though...

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
2. I played the trombone in highschool and HATED it.
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:28 PM
Apr 2013

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Now, one of my life's biggest disappointments is that I never played trombone in a Dixieland band.
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I would've LOVED that.
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What an ignant teenager I was.
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MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
6. I think it's in Sting's video of his first solo effort "Dream of the Blue Turtles" (a GREAT album...
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:48 PM
Apr 2013

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... and still one of my favorite music videos) where Branford Marsalis tells the interviewer that
he was given the clarinet in high school band, but he quickly refused and insisted on the sax.
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His reason?
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"Clarinet players didn't get the girls."
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Smart young fella there.
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CrazyOrangeCat

(6,112 posts)
5. So you were a teenage tromboner, as well . . .
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:46 PM
Apr 2013

You may not have liked the horn, MFM, but you have to admit it was fun goosing the foxy flautists!

CrazyOrangeCat

(6,112 posts)
8. HAHAHAA!!
Thu Apr 25, 2013, 07:53 PM
Apr 2013

Never did THAT, but me and my buddy used to march at halftime, completely blotto.

Hey, those cold Friday nights just cried out for sloe gin . . .

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
9. I played euphonium as a teenager.
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:16 AM
Apr 2013

I also was smart enough back then to recognize that I simply was not a musician. I could play the instrument, read the music, march the steps. I just didn't have the talent.

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