[Trombone-l] A question on alternate(?) positions.

[Price Taylor]

<Hans sipped from his bottle of German Bru-hoff beer and idly read the
label>

Jeremy, you sure you don't like Yagermeister better? Sorry, couldn't
refuse...

Glad you got to Ferguson's shop - it has to be a lot of fun.

-Price



On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Jeremy Yager <jayager at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Listers,
>
> PS
> > That key thingy at the end of the slide is not an octave key, regardless
> of
> > what many woodwind players may think!
> >
> > David Shriver
>
>
> Oh wait, it isn't?  Then how do you play more than seven notes?  I was
> wondering why they put the register key in such an awkward place... ;-)
>
>
> > Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] A question on alternate(?) positions.
> > > I'd like to be useful to this choir rather than just making flatulent
> > > noises behind a stand,
> >
> > And you want to be different from the rest of the trombonists for what
> > reason?
> >
>
> LOL...
>
> Exception: if you tune with the slide extended 1/2" or so you can
> > carefully raise the pitch of first position notes.
> >
>
> I was lucky enough to hear about setting 1st with a slightly extended slide
> early on.  Steve Ferguson pointed this out to me during a visit to his shop
> (hey, Steve) a few weeks ago to buy trombone paraphernalia and to gawk at
> beautiful instruments that I can't (yet?) play.  I'm lucky to live only 15
> min away from Steve's shop--it's a great place to check out if you find
> yourself in southern CA.
>
> Thank you for all the responses...not having to start trombone from 'zero',
> I've made a point to integrate as much as possible on the first pass--i.e.
> learning alternates and when to use them from the beginning--so there is
> less to change later.
>
> Hans sipped from his bottle of German Bru-hoff beer and idly read the
> label:
> > "Bru-hoff, a heady-nosed Rhine beer has a slightly briny pose, and if
> you've
> > ever drawn it, you would like the way it flows, but all of the other
> Rhine
> > beers, Dusen lagers, and thick ales, they never beat our Bru-hoff in the
> > yearly Rhine beer games."
> >    -Roger J. McNichols, Bulwer-Lytton Contest Finalist
>
>
> This, ladies and gentlemen, is art.
>
> Peace,
> Jeremy
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