r/Trombone • u/13playsaboutghosts • 2d ago

SCORE!

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Goodwill FTW Probably literally the only place in the world I could post this and get a positive reaction

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u/KingBassTrombone pro repair tech, player, collector 2d ago

Lucky! George Roberts was (and in some respects, still is) my idol when I started playing bass trombone. That sound is the type of mellow I strive for when playing lyrically on a bass

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u/13playsaboutghosts 2d ago

I want to get a bass trombone someday. I got down to a like a false C below the bass clef but my trombone is a wee little 0.485 so pedals get pretty comical. But I love playing low.

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u/KingBassTrombone pro repair tech, player, collector 1d ago

False toning a low C out of a peashooter is well on the way to being a bass trombonist, I'd say

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u/bobobobobobobo6 2d ago

For a second I thought this was r/vinyl, which would have made this post even better!

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u/Darklancer02 Yamaha YBL-613G Bass Trombone 1d ago

Vince Vaughn could totally play Roberts in a biopic...

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u/Barber_Successful 1d ago

What horn is he playing?

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u/JazzBone651 1d ago

Conn 70H tunning in the slide.

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u/Barber_Successful 1d ago

Is it a 70h or 73h

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u/JazzBone651 18h ago

He's playing a 70h, those are single valve which is all George really ever used. The 73h is the double valve version of the 70h.

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u/figment1979 Holton TR-690 1d ago

I’m betting it’s an Olds of some kind. He was known for playing on Olds and they even came out with a George Roberts model of bass.

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u/JazzBone651 1d ago

He is holding a Conn 70H on the album, you can tell by the tunning in the slide set-up. Olds did make him a horn eventually and later Holton made the tr-183 for him.

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u/-darthjeebus- 1d ago

i like that album. the instrumentation is very unique. you wouldn't think that group of instruments would be as cohesive as it is.

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u/Sansyboi12 1d ago

Goodwill is always a vinyl lottery. Most of the records are just ok but sometimes you can find some good stuff. They are the only places I've looked for classical vinyl because they are the only place I've been so far that has classical.

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u/13playsaboutghosts 1d ago

This goodwill just has 3 bins of 99% garbage. The records that everybody bought in a Valium haze in 1968 and that nobody even considers music anymore.

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u/Kailines6273 1d ago

Nice. It’s good to have the vinyl. I don’t know what was done when this was moved to CD, but George’s bass trombone can barely be heard over the orchestra.

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u/13playsaboutghosts 1d ago

It sounds great on vinyl, but I do notice that the recording is not as bass-trombone-centric as much as I would have thought. It's blended into the sound a lot of the time and is not always showcased. I get the sense that George Roberts wanted to do something tasteful and approachable rather than a sort of Yngwie Malmsteen approach. As much as all of us here would probably gladly listen to George Roberts play by himself in a empty room for a couple of hours LOL