[Trombone-l] Bent?

[Bill Dinwiddie]

Stan wrote:

"On the positive side of leaving a horn on the stage, is the story of Dizzy
Gillespie. He was playing at Birdland and had rented the place for an
after-hours birthday party for his wife Lorraine. During the evening, Diz
had to return home to do something. When he returned, he found that somehow
the stand had been knocked down and the bell had been bent. It played OK and
later determined that he liked the sound better with the bent bell. His
subsequent trumpets were all manufactured with the bell pointed upwards at a
45 degree angle.

Has any trombonist ever tried this approach? On purpose or on accident?"

Haw about Davis Schumann?

Bill Dinwiddie
billdin at comcast.net