[Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses

[Don Ingle]

Two Garden Hose stories:
   I once played (for two days before quitting, with Mike Riley. Mike was a
slapstick bandleader, wrote Music Goes Round and Round, and did things
generally hazard to the sideman's health -- for which reason I said, thank
but no thanks.
However, he did have a few trombone tricks. He played it with his foot, he
played it standing on his head; but the wild one was his fast extension past
the end of the slide tube with the resulting 20 foot hurl of the slide into
the audience. He'd then dig into a box and pull out another slide section
and shrug as if it's no big deal.
Then there was a trick trombone my dad had in his prop line up. The slide
section was a rubber hose, fitted to look like the slide and painted gold.
You could play it, but when it was extended past the first few positions it
would start to droop, and by seventh position it would all hang down and
swing back and forth. A few risqué lines would follow.
I, being wise, double on the VALVE TROMBONE. No flying or limp slides for
me.
Don Ingle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Livett" <livett at rogers.com>
To: "Grahame Parker" <parkerjaz at msn.com>
Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses


> No... thats a clarinet!!!!!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Grahame Parker" <parkerjaz at msn.com>
> To: <livett at rogers.com>; <jbutler6 at twcny.rr.com>
> Cc: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
>
>
> > I think Brian Graville of the Sensation Jazz Band in Kitchener Ontario
> > someimes plays a garden hose with  a mouthpiece and a funnel.   Am I
right
> ?
> > Grahame Parker
> > Peoria AZ
> > trombonist redux
> >
> >
> > >From: "Bryan Livett" <livett at rogers.com>
> > >To: "James Butler" <jbutler6 at twcny.rr.com>
> > >CC: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
> > >Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 13:47:00 -0400
> > >
> > >and whether it's rubber or plastic hose!
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "James Butler" <jbutler6 at twcny.rr.com>
> > >To: "Anton Crouch" <a.crouch at unsw.edu.au>; "DJML"
> > ><dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > >Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 8:25 AM
> > >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
> > >
> > >
> > > > IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE FUNNEL!!
> > > >
> > > > Jim Butler
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Anton Crouch" <a.crouch at unsw.edu.au>
> > > > To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > > > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 5:35 AM
> > > > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello all
> > > > >
> > > > > Charlie Hooks goes-on about garden hoses  :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anybody actually heard a garden hose played with a mouthpiece?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a recording of such a performance! - from the Hoffnung
Music
> > > > > Festival in the Festival Hall, London on 13 November 1956. Dennis
> > >Brian,
> > > > > the great horn player, gives us a fragment from Leopold Mozart's
> > >Alphorn
> > > > > Concerto - described as "third movement from Concerto for
Hose-pipe
> > >and
> > > > > Strings".
> > > > >
> > > > > The playing is amazing  - better than many efforts from the 415
> > >Brigade
> > > > > playing "natural" horns. If Vic Dickenson ever sounded like Dennis
> > >Brain
> > > > > playing the hose-pipe, then that's wonderful.
> > > > >
> > > > > All the best
> > > > > Anton
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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