Trombone

Charlie · October 15th, 2002, 10:56 am

Does anyone else play the trombone?! I just ask as I keep meeting finance/ quant people who do play trombone!

gjlipman · October 15th, 2002, 11:05 am

Once upon a time I did, but very badly!

MobPsycho · October 15th, 2002, 5:06 pm

If these sorts of coincidences fascinate you, you might enjoy this book.Not that I advocate theft, but it is short enough to read while standing the in bookstore aisle.MP

gjlipman · October 15th, 2002, 10:22 pm

That link came up with "The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late".What are you trying to suggest: that we are geniuses waiting to be discovered? That playing trombone is the equivalent of being a late developer? That anyone that actively seeks out coincidences is a late developer? Or that Amazon's linking system isn't very good? I'm confused. Or do I have to read the book in order to understand!

Charlie · October 16th, 2002, 6:33 am

I actually have little intersest in "these sorts of coincidences" but as I play the trombone I'm interested in who else does!

MobPsycho · October 16th, 2002, 7:34 am

Thinking of starting a band?Take inspiration from a fellow trombonist and war-time entrepreneur in The Glen Miller Story.MP

bm · October 16th, 2002, 9:33 am

I play the double bass. I never meet anyone else who plays that.On my desk though we have a cellist and a pianist, but no trombonist.

csparker · October 17th, 2002, 8:56 am

Another double bassist and bas guitarist checks in. Trombones, double basses - we could start a big band. All we need is some trumpets, saxaphones, piano, guitar. Oh, and a drummer. But we won't find one of them here will we? I can see this thread taking a "musician / drummer" joke direction if we're not careful.

Johnny · October 17th, 2002, 9:15 am

"I can see this thread taking a "musician / drummer" joke direction if we're not careful."A guy walks into a shop and says "How much for a set of steel-wound guitar strings?"Shopkeeper: "You must be a drummer"Guy :"How did you know that?"Shopkeeper: "This is a green-grocers."Boom-boom

csparker · October 17th, 2002, 1:13 pm

QuoteBoom-boom Have we found a drummer?

Johnny · October 17th, 2002, 2:58 pm

Have we found a drummer? No, but you may have found the worst joke in the world. Sorry 'bout that.

James · October 17th, 2002, 3:30 pm

Johnny wrote:Quotebut you may have found the worst joke in the world. Well, at least we got this far without any trombonner jokes.

quantie · October 18th, 2002, 6:12 pm

How serindipitous , of all the instruments alto-sax, tenor sax , clarinet etc, i play the trombone .!Well I used to , till i started developing complications with my throat and my voice cracked and i was told by my guru i would lose my melody! ;-((So rather reluctantly i stopped playing , Do you sing? , why not have a quant band!!?I also play some eastern percussion at this point.