1984

Commentator Carl Haas, in his book Inside Music, relates the following supposedly true story: “A rather resolute but musically poorly versed lady sat in a side gallery of a concert hall with a good view of the trombone section. With great amazement she watched the first trombonist perform a solo passage requiring a good deal of slide manipulation. Impatiently she rushed to see him right after the performance, tore the trombone from his unsuspecting hands, exclaiming, ‘Give me that thing. I’ll get it out for ye!’ And with that she tore the slide loose from the trombone” (Haas 77).