[Trombone-l] Mute Bag Musings

[Bill Dinwiddie]

(5th Try)

Wayne Dyess wrote:

In my mute bag:

Jo-Ral straight
H&B cup
H&B bucket
a "blue" plunger from Wal-Mart
and a pixie mute just for fun (solo's)

I used to carry a "solo-tone" mute, but it broke.  Fragile buggers,
those are.

I also carry a personalized fake book (the tunes I like), a stand
light, a Shure SM-57, two different water spray bottles, a tube of
slide cream, a jar of Super-slick, and one set of Slide-o-Mix.  Also
a cleaning rag... and an extra light bulb for the light.  In one
corner, tucked away -- one half box of business cards
(for the optimist only, who thinks a trombonist can get work).

Oh yeah... and a couple of pencils.  One sharpie (for autographs).

Just kidding about the sharpie!
Ha!



Hey Wayne,

I think you may have started a new thread here. I propose that we all
disclose the actual, complete, contents of our mute bags. Not the "idealized
contents" or the "what we want others to think about us" contents, but the
real, actual contents. I think you have done a really good job in your
disclosure, and I am willing to be the second disclosee. Every one who
participates must be willing to open their mute bag RIGHT NOW (or soon) and
list 100% of the contents right here on the good old Trombone-L. Prizes will
be awarded sometime in the distant future. OK? Here I go!

One men's shaving kit bag containing:
One jar carmex
Two bottles Slide-O-Mix (50ml)
One bottle Slide-O-Mix (10ml)
Two jars Super Slick
Two jars Super slick silicone
One jar Reka Superslide
One jar Equate allergy tablets
One small squirt bottle (Digital Innovations)
One medium squirt bottle (Bath & Body Works Gardenia Lilly)
One sewing repair kit
One green hohner kazoo
One bottle Repel 100 Insect repellent
One jar Selmer Slide & cork grease
One travel toothbrush
One replacement crutch tip for bone stand
One cuff link
Two small screw drivers
One spare bow tie
One Craftsman "Finger Bit Driver" (works great on those dang stand lights)
One Panasonic calculator
Five obsolete business cards
One small Kodak film can containing 2 spare corks
One mouthpiece rim on a stick
One small tube Colgate tooth paste (regular flavor)
One half stick Door-ease tuning slide lube
One elastic bandage
One dozen non-obsolete business cards
Four pencils
Five pairs assorted earplugs (critical in these times)

Not in shaving kit bag:
One ancient H&B cup mute
One Alessi-Vacchiano metal straight mute (slightly dented)
One light brown plunger mute(with hole drilled in the right place)
Five wooden clothes pins
Two Rhythm Tech "Eggz"
One ten foot extension cord
One six foot extension cord
One Exacto Digital Quartz metronome
Seventeen cleaning rags, stolen from some of the finest hotels in Chicago

That's it. That's all of it. 100%. Certified. Assembled in over 50 years of
playing this crazy instrument.

I can assure you that all 100% of the above are NOT going to return to the
mute bag.

Just for laughs, I hope some of you will join in. You never know what you
might run across!

Bill Dinwiddie
billdin at comcast.net