[Trombone-l] Get trombone, add water

[Jeff Albert]

It reminded me of a great practical joke story.

When I was in college, the New Orleans Saints (NFL football) had a big band
on the sideline.  I played in the band for a couple of seasons, and it was
lots of fun, although we would go long stretches of time without playing.

There was a rule that one member at a time from each section could leave to
go to the bathroom or whatever.  Mark Mullins was playing lead trombone at
the time.  It was Christmas Eve and someone had a bag of Hershey's kisses on
the bandstand.  While Mark was in the bathroom, we realized that a Hershey's
kiss fits perfectly in a trombone mouthpiece, and is hard to see (with both
the kiss and the mouthpiece being silver).  The kiss wasn't enough however,
so Brian (the second trombone player) poured all of his water bottle into
Mark's slide, then put the kiss in the mouthpiece.

Mark returned, some time went by without us playing, and we all sort of
forgot about the joke.  Miraculously the Saints did something good (I think
it was an interception returned for a touchdown) and we had to play
quickly.  We all grabbed our horns and started playing, when Mark put his to
his face, stopped and removed the kiss, and murmed pleasantries at us.  He
then began to play, and it made such a wonderful gurgling sound, while water
burst forth from his bell, making a nice pool at his feet and wet spot on
his leg.  None of the members of the trombone section were sucessful in our
attempts to play any more of "When the Saints..." at that particular time.
The band leader was less amused than we were.

That is my water in a trombone sound story.

Jeff

On 5/17/07, steve_beck at comcast.net <steve_beck at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> NPR listener Brian Allen of Lake Jackson, Texas, offers a SoundClip of
> water in a trombone. Allen says he just wanted to hear what it sounded like;
> who can blame him for that?
>
>
>
> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10215587
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