[Trombone-l] Always good to check out the horn a head of time

[Tom Izzo]

No fair, David.
Dennis Brain got great sound & intonation on all partials with a garden hose!
(Hoffnung)

Tom

--- On Thu, 10/30/08, David Guion <dmguion at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David Guion <dmguion at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Always good to check out the horn a head of time
> To: Trombone-l at samford.edu
> Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 8:23 AM
> It seems to me that Dennis Brain deliberately stuck a pencil
> in his horn to
> improve the intonation of some partial--this right after
> the war when buying
> a better horn was out of the question.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Chris Tune
> <christune at christune.com>wrote:
> 
> > Great story.  A very well known trombonist in town
> here, had his horn
> > refurbished about two or three years ago.  The
> technician asked him if he
> > wanted this: (at which point he handed him a pencil
> with pocket clip that
> > apparently had been living in the horn for an enormous
> amount of time).
> >
> > He said, "Oh, that's where that went!"
> >
> > He had been missing the pencil for some time.  It had
> been in the neck
> > section.
> >
> > I imagine it played a bit better after the unwelcome
> inhabitant had vacated
> > the premises.
> >
> > [seems you hear stories like this fairly frequently]
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu [mailto:
> > trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu]
> > On Behalf Of Ray Horton
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:57 AM
> > To: Trombone-l at samford.edu
> > Subject: [Trombone-l] Always good to check out the
> horn a head of time
> >
> > I happened upon this little anecdote while searching
> for something.
> >
> > Perhaps it could be a practice technique?
> >
> > ---------
> > Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:49:24 -0700
> > From: Grant Green
> > Subject: [CB] Stuffy subcontrabass tubas
> >
> > Alan Cole forwards the following:
> >
> > Dear Friends:
> >
> > A friend & Potomac Brass Quintet (of Virginia)
> colleague who plays tuba
> > & bass trombone had the privilege, back when he
> was a Harvard graduate
> > student, of playing a solo concerto on the
> university's immense
> > sub-contrabass tuba, a real museum piece that was
> seldom played & only
> > then for special occasions. In practice while working
> up the solo, he
> > found that the humongous tuba responded radically
> differently from any
> > tuba he had ever played before, even to the extent
> that he had to make
> > up alternate fingerings as he went along. Plus its
> sound was unfocused &
> > stuffy, as he might have expected from such an
> outsized instrument. But
> > he's a good player & before too long was able
> to work up the solo. He
> > chalked up the instrument's funny response &
> oddball fingerings to its
> > super size. The whole time he was practicing on the
> extra-big tuba, it
> > was in its accustomed upright position right where it
> was kept in
> > storage backstage, because it was way too hefty to
> move around
> > unnecessarily & without help. At dress rehearsal
> for the performance,
> > some helpers joined in moving the beast to center
> stage, & while they
> > were at it they discovered & removed from inside
> the bell of the big
> > tuba a roll of carpet that had been placed there for
> some unknown
> > reason. My friend the soloist said that with the rug
> taken out, the
> > venerable tuba sounded lots better, blew much freer,
> & played OK using
> > conventional fingerings.
> >
> > -- Alan Cole,
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