trumpet_man

oh man, that IS funny. That Renniasance Festival was a good one, man that is hilarious. And the 3rd slide popping out into the audience during a solo. LMAO. I've just remembered some more funny things that have happened.

During jazz band (you know how the trombones sit in front of the saxes), the trombone player kicked his slide way out; right into the back of the sax's head.

Another time we were in a small room and had to sit close, the trumpet play next to me and I we both slouching. I was wear short sleeves. When we had to come in his mouthpiece (more than his mouthpiece, the end of his trumpet) went up my sleeve. It surprised the heck out of me.

Once during band (yes, I'm still in highschool) there was a trumpet play who had an absolute piece-of -junk trumpet that was in rough condition and was duct-taped together. One day he was playing and his trumpet broke in half (don't ask how).

I remember playing pep-band at a basketball game there was this Euphonium player that plays trumpet half the time. I brought my pocket trumpet and showed it to the Euphonium player, (this game he was on trumpet). He said "can I see it", so I let him hold it, then he gave it back to me. During the team's time out we went to play and I couldn't play a note, nothing. nada. Nothing came out. I tried to blow harder. Still nothing. I looked into the bell and he had stuffed a water bottle cap up the bell of my pocket trumpet (it's reasons like this that I won't even CONSIDER taking my Xeno to pep band). Of course since you can't wedge it in far in a pocket trumpet I was able to just reach in and take it out, not realizing that you couldn't with a regulat trumpet since they are longer. So just to be funny about a month later I did it to his trumpet, a real trumpet. I didn't realize it would be harder to get out. Man, that thing was STUCK. We tried everything. It was stuck in there half the game, we tried so many ways to get it out I don't remember which one worked. So anyway, about a year later, he was on Euphonium. During the game we were visiting about that experience and were saying that it couldn't happen to a Euphonium since you're closer to the mouthpiece than bell to get a water bottle cap's diameter. So he stuffed a whole water bottle into the Euphonium. You aren't supposed to play a note during the actual game because it will distract the others, but that didn't matter since the water bottle jammed in there was by far softer than any practice mute with ten times more resistance. Keep in mind, he has lots of air. He kept blowing his utmost into the horn and it was still super soft. Finally he blew so hard that the water bottle flew out of the horn several feet and he played an insanely loud not (I'd say at least ffff). Man everyone in the band and half the audience turned around to see what was going on. THis was during the game too. Let me tell you, the directer wasn't any too happy about it. To someone that didn't know what was going on, just all of a sudden heard a loud Euphoniumn note. It was loud enough to be heard throughout the whole gym, and heard well too.

I'll never forget that joke I made up about trombones. A good prank to pull for a trombone player would be to, when he isn't supervising his trombone, grab it and cut off MOST of the silver part that the main slide goes over. Then when he picks it up to play, he'll yank it right off. If you don't want him killing you, just switch trombones on him. Or, you could just cut off a little and wait for his jazz solo and the part where he hits a low note to pull it out.