[Dixielandjazz] left Handed Trombopnes

[Stephen G Barbone]

> "ROBERT R. CALDER" <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote (polite snip)
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> Presumably somebody has asked Slide about this?


 From an interview of Slide Hampton by Bob Bemotas
Question: Let's talk about the trombone for a while. You play left- 
handed. How did that come about?

Answer: See, our training was coming from our father, and he hadn't  
had any formal training, and my mother also, who had probably studied  
some on piano. My father was a natural player. He played saxophone and  
drums. As the kids were born he would give them an instrument and  
teach them as much about it as he knew, and then you'd go out on your  
own and learn everything else. And so we were mostly all self-taught.

They gave me the trombone left-handed and I played it that way. It's  
the only thing I do with my left hand. I did study with a few  
different teachers, but they never tried to influence me to play right- 
handed.

The complete interview, of possible interest to sliphorn players  is at;

http://www.trombone.org/articles/library/slidehampton-int.asp



Cheers,

Steve Barbone

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