I don't know how many folk have heard of Bill Watrous but he is up there with the cream of bone players.
I watched one of his master classes on how to clean a Trombone slide. Normally this only takes me a few minutes once a year and the bath is full of most unpleasant things once I have swilled the slide out.(hmmm could this be where my gut problems stem from!!!)
However it takes him up to 20 minutes to make the slide perfect. I tried it yesterday and unbeknown to the audience I nearly lost my slide during 'The Way we Were' solo. It was nearly a case of the way we were not!! The slide was like a Rolls Royce compared to a Lada, so way to go Bill.
Enjoyed the blow last night (both ends) but there were real tuning probs last night ,but the strange thing is the audience were not aware of any mistakes or out of tune numbers. I know because I asked a couple of people if they had heard any mistakes? Nope they replied, everything was great! So there you go maybe I have got away with murder on the bone for years and worried about nothing lol.
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