A thread for bad ideas...
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A thread for bad ideas...
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Bad idea 1:
Has anyone ever made a trombone with a helix slide?
Wanted to say spiral, but in the spiral staircase sense, not the flat sense where curviture is changing constantly, and so such a slide wouldn't.
Be hard to make and hard to fix, and how the player moves it is... well i don't see an easy obvious answer. But it could be more compact, so you could make a longer useable slide, and positions could be described by angles. And my justifcation for being tickled by the idea: sprinkler water key.
Bad idea 1:
Has anyone ever made a trombone with a helix slide?
Wanted to say spiral, but in the spiral staircase sense, not the flat sense where curviture is changing constantly, and so such a slide wouldn't.
Be hard to make and hard to fix, and how the player moves it is... well i don't see an easy obvious answer. But it could be more compact, so you could make a longer useable slide, and positions could be described by angles. And my justifcation for being tickled by the idea: sprinkler water key.
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What flavors?bloke wrote:Mouthspicles®
Popsicles made in in the shapes of mouthpieces.
Play 'em quick...and boy, are they good !
One moment as get my bib...
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I think the mechanical airflow was a problem for the old oversized BBBb tubas i've come across on the interwebs... I thought i remember someone saying that was a plan, but not seeing any further mention...the elephant wrote:Bad idea: just bad. And creepy AF.
My forays into trying to create one have been unproductive.
I tried sticking a balloon over a mouthpiece, inflating it through the shank, and then putting into a baritone, and trying to make music the same way you'd make noise by pulling the edges tight and letting the air out. Results were anti-climatic...
That was early thoughts of trying to conceive an Edgar Bergen style brass instrument act...
Put that down as another bad idea?
Anyway, all that said, robotic instrument playing is still kinda cool, even if it is harder to call music than one might wish.
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Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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Mouthpieces that are gold plated silver base.
(Some of you might know from one of my threads)
(Some of you might know from one of my threads)
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Only time i been asked for tux slacks is as part of a marching uniform for parades, where it would have been an extra bad idea. Or at least so i imagine...the elephant wrote:Using Magic Tape as an emergency tux pants stripe when all you have are black slacks. That's right. You're not fooling anyone with that old trick.
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Didn't Early Williams make a slide that was octagonal? A repairman's worst nightmare...humBell wrote: Has anyone ever made a trombone with a helix slide?
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... and being a member of the back row, I've been "asked" to donate black tie, white tie, and even once my tails jacket to members of the violin section ( and to the concertmaster, no less!). Making replacements out of gaffer's tape becomes an art (well, not for the tails, but... )
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complementary free tubas:
Miraphone 6/4 BBb
Thein tubas
Miraphone 6/4 BBb
Thein tubas
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8/4 Tubas in Eb
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8/3 tubas in Db... (to play with all those DB piccolos... )
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the elephant wrote:Luckily, we only rarely have to enforce this in my orchestra, and it is almost *always* for infractions by females, and they are usually major infractions.
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Mark wrote:the elephant wrote:Luckily, we only rarely have to enforce this in my orchestra, and it is almost *always* for infractions by females, and they are usually major infractions.
keep it PG!
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I bet no one has sat down and drank ten of those!!bloke wrote:1. no-alcohol beer
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I am confused.... What does it do if the teeth stick through?bloke wrote:I drink regular beer, but always use these...Three Valves wrote:I bet no one has sat down and drank ten of those!!bloke wrote:1. no-alcohol beer
Oh yeah... Another bad idea in action i guess.
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a rectangular shaped interior mouthpiece
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"Truth be told, I bought this because I love the picture in the product description so much. You can tell the model is looking at the photographer and thinking "Uh uh, dude. You just keep your *** waaaaay over there".the elephant wrote:CLICKY!bloke wrote:Have you seen those for sale...!?!?!?
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