[Trombone-l] Long stretch with no trombone

[Raymond Horton]

Good luck, Merle!  Not close enough to Louisville, or we'd work 
something out for you here.


Ray Horton


Merle Knotts wrote:
> This summer I will be doing a fund-raiser for the Georgia Chapter of The
> National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
>
> I will be leaving on May 19 to pedal a recumbent tricycle to my 50-year high
> school class reunion in Oak Harbor, Washington on August 3. This is a
> distance of about 3,300 miles and will take me about 3 months to do
> (including the return trip by car).
>
> Obviously, I will not be taking my bass trombone with me. Not only is there
> no place to carry it, but I don't want to pedal it over the Rockies or the
> Cascades. I can carry a mouthpiece but that seems like a poor substitute for
> actually putting my horn on my chops.
>
> If anyone along the way could include me in a community band rehearsal or a
> quartet or ??? it would be lovely. However my schedule is not very flexible,
> as you might imagine.
>
> You can see the whole story on my website, www.MerlesMilesForMS.com. ...
>