[Hornlist] Playing horn and trombone!?!?!?

2004-08-19 Thread Joe Duke
Hello. I could not resist jumping into this question with both feet. It is likely that the trombone would be easier to play along with the horn, if it were a valve trombone.However, to play these two instruments while either standing (more difficult) or sitting would certainly be a challe

Re: [Hornlist] Playing a trombone

2004-08-19 Thread Susan Thompson
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 09:29 AM, blackjack_ cajun wrote: > can some of you share some insights on playing a trombone and horn at > the same time? > what do you guys think? > ...but seriously, if you meant playing horn and then playing trombone not at the same time but perhaps on the s

Re: [Hornlist] Playing a trombone

2004-08-19 Thread Paul Mansur
On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 09:29 AM, blackjack_ cajun wrote: can some of you share some insights on playing a trombone and horn at the same time? what do you guys think? I think it works fine with two persons, one playing the trombone and one the horn. If they are each good players then t

Re: [Hornlist] Playing a trombone

2004-08-19 Thread Dave Tuttle
I would find having two different sizes of mouthpiece on the embouchure makes buzzing the correct notes very difficult. Furthermore, you can simply hold up both instruments and that's about it. You can do the fingerings on the horn, but you don't have a free hand for in the bell. Since you don't ha

Re: [Hornlist] Playing a trombone

2004-08-19 Thread Alan Cole
I once saw a guy on The Gong Show playing 2 cornets at the same time -- 1 in each hand, double embouchure pucker. A horn & a trombone would be somewhat trickier, no? Maybe if the horn & trombone were mounted on a special stand, you could try to maneuver yourself into a semi-contorted position fo

[Hornlist] trombone/1812 myth

2004-08-19 Thread David Jewell
Hi guys - I hate to cast aspersions on this, since it seems to come from a reliable source, but the Discovery Channel show "Mythbusters" tried to replicate this and they failed. It ended up taking nearly 3/4 of a stick of dynamite to replicate the incident. The men who run the experiments dupl

[Hornlist] Playing a trombone

2004-08-19 Thread blackjack_ cajun
Hi all, can some of you share some insights on playing a trombone and horn at the same time? what do you guys think? regards, Jon _ Fast. Clear. Easy. The new MSN Search. http://search.msn.com.sg/