Late night tromboning (on Goodrich Road)

[jaybee82]

To the person learning the Trombone on Goodrich Road - you've definitely made progress this week but I'd be grateful if you wouldn't play at 1am...! Cheers muchly.

Has anyone else heard it or am I going nuts?

[James]

Isn't "late-night tromboning" some sort of euphemism?

[*Bob*]

It's not even a euphemism

[Loz]

Dammit. Edited because Bob got in first. So to speak.

What a hotbed of debauchery Goodrich Road is becoming.

[jaybee82]

Hahaha - well whatever they're up to they're making a right old racket.

[Keef]

Damn it, saw the title of this thread but *bob* & Loz had both gotten there first!

A friend of mine who actually plays the trombone searched for "tromboning" on facebook in order to network with musicians, and got a real shock!

[*Bob*]

Any talk of tromboning and I'm in there - like a rat up a drainpipe.

[Blinkeyblonck]

hahahah hahahahah haaaa this is a good thread!

[James]

Where there's muck there's brass

[Nero]

*Bob*

You got there before me, too! :'( but also :)

[*Bob*]

How about an HILARIOUS trombone joke..?

Someone asks a trombonist: "What's the subdominant of F major?"

The trombonist is confused: "What??? I thought F major was the subdominant!"

Fetch a needle and thread.. my sides, my sides..

[Keef]

I don't even get it... Is it suggesting that a Trombonist can only manage to play in C?

[*Bob*]

You tell us, Keef.

You're the man with the brass credentials here.

[mockney piers]

Tromboning, brass, can this get any ruder?

Right I'm off to make some brew, teabag anyone?

[jaybee82]

I was going to refer to the culprit as a tromboner, but that doesn't really sound any better. Pretty glad I didn't confront him about it this morning though...

[Ladygooner]

OMIGOD! I have learnt something new today!

[Keef]

Well *bob*, as I'm sure you know, F Major is indeed the subdominant of C, so I was guessing it was saying they were limited in their ability or something... Other than that, I'm lost.

For the record, the answer to the original question "What is the subdominant of F Major" would be Bb Major.

Get me :-S

Still not getting the "joke" though

[*Bob*]

Is C a particularly easy key to play on the trombone?

With this remaining piece of the joke jigsaw slotted into place, one may proceed to fall about laughing at will.

Is the trombone a maligned instrument in the Brass World? Like violas in an orchestra?

Let's talk trombones.

[TillieTrotter]

Me too LG! Well I never!

[*Bob*]

You should

[Keef]

Actually it's probably one of the harder instruments to play (I played trumpet, what do I know?).

Anyway, did you know that until the later Baroque period, an instrument called the Sackbut (now that is interesting when you take in to account the modern meaning for tromboning) was used, and this evolved in to the modern trombone.

[ratty]

I have just PMSL at this thread.

Thread of the Year by a Country Mile!!!

[Loz]

There's definitely a good jazz (in the original sense of the word, of course) night here. A couple of people tromboning, a few people with some hard sax, someone on the organ and at least one person banging the drum.

As soon as Keef replaces the G-string on his guitar, it's everyone down the Goodrich Road...

[Jah Lush]

I often come home early in the evening to hear my neighbour playing the trombone. I mean a real one too.

[Siduhe]

Jah, Melford/Underhill Borders? Us too. We can quite often see him playing his trombone as well as hear it...