I accidentally texted my wife with voice recognition...while playing the trombone pic.twitter.com/tWCPSXbbrO
— Paul The Trombonist (@JazzTrombonist) November 21, 2017
November 26, 2017
"I accidentally texted my wife with voice recognition...while playing the trombone..."
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Where's April Ryan when we need her?
Come on.
Sad trombone. Sad.
Name that tune.
Tuba mirum spargens sonum
Honk if you're horny.
It all makes sense when you learn his wife is Charlie Brown's teacher.
I hate trombone. My first instrument. You can't do anyting musical with it.
Piano, guitar, lute was my progression once I was old enough to have a say in it.
Baritone was a good substitute for trombone. Mellower and no tiring arm motions. It has the same range.
EDH wins the Internet today.
I was going to say, now we can find out what the adults said on Peanuts, but EDH got there first with better.
I feel sorry for the kid who gets stuck on trombone or oboe or tuba because the band teacher needs to fill out orchestra chairs. Trombone is nowhere. Most kids will never do music again.
Still better than Trump's tweets.
That's friggin' awesome. Such a 2017 thing.
-sw
Tommy Dorsey doing something musical.
Wild chicken: My daughter plays trumpet in Junior band, but the director offered to lend her a tuba all year no charge if she'd be willing to also play cadet.
Hey, free tuba. (She jumped on it.)
You can't do anything musical with it.
There's an aphorism about a carpenter who blames his tools... now, what was it?
"I feel sorry for the kid who gets stuck on trombone or oboe or tuba because the band teacher needs to fill out orchestra chairs. Trombone is nowhere. Most kids will never do music again."
Huh? This is exactly wrong. It's the clarinet players who are probably most likely to never do music again. A halfway decent oboe or tuba player will always be in demand. And as far as I know, the only person from my high school band to make it as a professional musician was one of the trombone players -- though he admittedly switched to sackbut to do it. (When I was it the band -- there was a bassoon player who graduated about six years ahead of me who played bassoon professionally for a couple of decades.)
SF makes an excellent point: like for my daughter, competition for first chair in trumpet will be high. Tuba will likely be ripe for the plucking.
The best trombonist in my High School class became very famous indeed. I don't think anyone else musical in High School did anything musical to make a living.
SF, sackbut is just an earlier trombone. But I'm with you: The flutists and clarinetists are legion, and what orchestras actually need is double-reed players and lower brass. (By which I mean basically not-trumpet; everything from horn on down.) And, in the string section, violists and bassists. Violinists and cellists are ever in surplus.
Brassed Off (1996) first trumpet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esWs1LomVnQ
Come on.
My thoughts exactly.
Brassed Off (1996) first trumpet
That is an underrated movie. I enjoy a rewatch every few years. That scene where the colliers play Danny Boy for a dying Pete Postlethwaite: melodramatic, yes, but if it doesn't still bring a tear you have no soul.
The flutists and clarinetists are legion, and what orchestras actually need is double-reed players and lower brass. (By which I mean basically not-trumpet; everything from horn on down.)
My daughter's band director has advised her that if she would put in a bit more extra practice with her French horn she would have a pretty good shot at a scholarship because there aren't a whole lot of good horn players and she is pretty talented. Of course, though, that is what I would be saying to my first chair if I were a band director trying to pump up my solo and ensemble scores going into concert season.
The question is this- did the wife believe that story?
I wonder how it would translate a wailing sax?
First draft: "I spent several minutes typing 'woo woo woop' into my phone ..."
rhhardin said...
"I hate trombone. My first instrument. You can't do anyting musical with it."
Just think of how much more successful Glenn Miller would have have been if he had played a more musical instrument! ;-)
Shutup Rick! Could Glenn Miller do 40wpm?
Bad Lieutenant said...
"Shutup Rick! Could Glenn Miller do 40wpm?"
Probably not. I'm not even sure you have to have the ability to move your fingers to play the trombone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teJfuKdzbOo
Whah! Whah!
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