[Trombone-l] Bent?

[Peter Soukup]

Here's a picture of it.

http://www.trombonefestival.net/itf2005/recap/photos/#

Click on Thursday Evening concert, and it's in the second, fourth and fifth
pictures...

-- 
Pete Soukup
St. Andrews Brass
Grand Avenue Big Band
The Moonlighters
95th Street Band
The Houndz
Naperville Area Trombone Ensemble
Jim Guter Big Band (sub)
Bristol Renaissance Faire (with Izzo)
West Suburban Symphony (alternate)



> From: Phil Burton <gtfphil at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Phil Burton <gtfphil at yahoo.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:24:04 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Bill Dinwiddie <billdin at comcast.net>, List Trombone
> <TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Bent?
> 
> Last year at the ITF in New Orleans, on one of the final days, a band played,
> and one of the trombone players was playing a really old 4 rotor valved horn,
> that had the bell bent up, but it only looked like about maybe 30 degrees or
> so....  I've forgotten the name of the group.
> 
> Phil
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Bill Dinwiddie <billdin at comcast.net>
> To: List Trombone <TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu>
> Sent: Monday, July 3, 2006 2:11:24 PM
> Subject: [Trombone-l] Bent?
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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