[Trombone-l] Oops!

[Jeff Albert]

Mike,

It takes a lot of a man to own to something like that.  You're a better man
than I, because I never tell the story about the time I showed up to play
the opera with no trombone...oops.

Jeff

On 12/7/06, mikesuter at adelphia.net <mikesuter at adelphia.net> wrote:
>
> My face is red. I desperately hope this has happened to others. If not, I
> really AM getting too old.
>
> I've never used a left-hand support in my 50 years of playing (FIFTY
> YEARS?!!?) but recently designed a simple one for my new bass trombone.
>
> This past Saturday I was playing a concert - worse yet I was performing a
> feature solo in said concert - when my F branch rotor stopped working. I'd
> push the lever but it wouldn't move. Locked solid. Nothing to do but to play
> what notes I could on the G branch and manufacture the rest on the Bb side.
> I got through it and nobody threw food.
>
> But when I sat down and tried the lever, it worked fine.
>
> Yeah, you got it.
>
> I was pushing on the vertical bar of the support instead of the lever.
>
> I guess I'll have to practice some more.
>
> Mike (face so red that planes turn away in avoidance from 5 miles up)
> Suter
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