[Trombone-l] Plunger Mute question...

Tue Jan 6 12:46:35 CST 2009

Sometimes even a regular tuba mute needs help.  In Bernstein's "Waltz for Mippy III", the mute change is so rapid at the end I had the page-turner put it in.  In a work by Vaclav Nehlybel (I can't spell that) I had to put the tuba mute in, and the tubist had to mute my euph. Oy!

J.c.S.

---- Tom Izzo <contrabasstrombone at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> 
> David, Keith, and all,
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 1/6/09, David W. Buckley <davebuckley at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> 
> > From: David W. Buckley <davebuckley at cogeco.ca>
> > Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Plunger Mute question...
> > To: "Keith Marr" <epigraph55 at hotmail.co.uk>, "Trombone List" <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> > 
> > Maybe someone will tell me how a tuba player can use a
> > plunger mute?
> > 
> 
> Well................
> 
> P.D.Q. Bach "wrote" a piece, I believe the title is "Divertimento for 2 Flutes and Discontinuo".
> The "dis"continuo part is tambourine & tuba.
> In the 2nd mov't (again I'm running on memory, here). The Tuba is to use a a plunger made from a garbage can lid. The tambourinist is to operate it.
> So there is a precedent for a Tubist using a "plunger". LOL
> 
> Tom
> 
> > Dave.
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Keith Marr"
> > <epigraph55 at hotmail.co.uk>
> > To: "Trombone List"
> > <trombone-l at samford.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:06 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Plunger Mute question...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Trust Tom to have four sizes - nice to know some things in
> > life never 
> > change!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regarding the
> > Jolly Ball (a toy for horses I think) someone recommended
> > that on list a few 
> > years ago for bass trombone and I
> > ordered one. (There's a discussion in the 2003 archive.
> > Dan Pliskin
> > used one at that time.) Didn't know they came in
> > different sizes and
> > the stores who supplied me sent the biggest - it was a
> > 10"er! I reckon
> > it would work on a contra or even a tuba!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > My first post of 2009, so happy new year to you all!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Keith in Bb/F/D
> > 
> > > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 20:10:44 -0800
> > > From: contrabasstrombone at yahoo.com
> > > To: boneman88 at sbcglobal.net; jeffalbert.smb at gmail.com
> > > CC: trombone-l at samford.edu
> > > Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Plunger Mute question...
> > >
> > > Hey guys there are more than two sizes!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Mon, 1/5/09, Jeff Albert
> > <jeffalbert.smb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > but I
> > > > think that one ended up with my trumpet playing
> > stepson.
> > >
> > > How come he doesn't use the "Trumpet"
> > model?
> > > The plunger that non-musicians would call the bathtub
> > size, is only 3" 
> > > accross.
> > >
> > > I personally have all four "sizes", but as a
> > doubler, I need them all.
> > > 3" for Trumpet (and Sop Trb).
> > > 5+" for small Tenors (never had a call for
> > plunger on Alto LOL)
> > > 6" for large Tenors, & the H&B model for
> > Bass Trb. The rubber ones just 
> > > don't cut it on bells over 9".
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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