Originally Posted by
djwpe
1) Doug Elliot wrote in Trombone Chat that playing bass is like riding a bicycle uphill, ...
From the other Doug's (Yeo) web site ...
My teacher, Edward Kleinhammer (retired bass trombonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) once told me this true story about doubling:
One day a well known trombonist from a major orchestra came into my studio carrying two instruments in his hands.
-- "What do you have there?" I asked.
-- "Why, these are my tenor and bass trombones," came the reply.
-- To which I replied, "Young man, those two horns are like two women. They will fight you and they will fight each other until you finally decide on one of them!"
At some point in his writings (I can't seem to find it right now) Yeo also remarks that a bass trombone wasn't designed to be held by a human.