[Trombone-l] A lovely Tubax solo
Robert Slaven
robert at robertslaven.ca
Wed Nov 2 00:30:00 CST 2005
From: "Adrian Drover" <slide.rule at adios.co.uk>
> From: "Daniel Pliskin" <daniel_pliskin at hotmail.com>
>
>> You can get a truly horrendous sound by putting an English horn reed in
>> the mouthpiece of the trombone. The whole instruments quakes. It's loud
>> and high pitched.
Or, a la Professor Peter Schickele and/or P.D.Q. Bach, stick a bassoon bocal
into a trombone's mouthpiece, thereby creating a tromboon.
>
> Yep, that sounds like the bagpipes. It's impossible to play them without
> rupturing every eardrum within half a mile.
>
But that's part of the fun, innit?
Robert
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