[Trombone-l] 1938 Conn 70H slide too long...

[Tom Izzo]

Oh my goodness, I completely overlooked the Adrian Drover type response. Thanks Ray, I'll let you get the credit on this one! Beat me to it.


 Ray Horton wrote:

> After I posted, I realized what a good straight line I
> had given Tom, so I'm going to provide the punchline
> myself:
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> The contrabass has the longest slide, the piccolo trombone
> the shortest.  [rimshot].
> 
> 
Indeed. Piccolo slide is 5 INCHES long in 1st pos. LOL
a BBb Contra is exactly twice as long as a Bb Tenor (or Bass) slide. So we're looking at approx 12 feet in 1st pos.

Darn I wish I had thought of that one first.............

Tom

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> > Tom Izzo wrote:
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> >> --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Keith Marr
> <epigraph55 at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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> >>       
> >>> From: Keith Marr
> <epigraph55 at hotmail.co.uk>
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> >>> Both my Rath R9DST and my Kanstul 1662i have a
> decent C on
> >>> the end of the slide but admittedly it is
> halfway down the
> >>> stocking. I couldn't imagine playing some
> of the charts
> >>> I get (Watermelon Man for example) without
> that D valve.
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> >>>           
> >> hahahahahahahahahah
> >> I can't imagine playing with only a D valve!
> >> C valve all the way!~
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> >> Tom (funning of course) on his Bb/F/C models.
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