. He was my euph. private lesson instructor when I went to the college in Minot State University in Minot, ND. I learned a lot from him 
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for me. If he asks who I am, my name is Paul Routledge, that Canadian euph. player from The Pas, MB. I will be moving to Brandon, MB in a couple of weeks or so.
music education in my school ends in Sec. III but I've continued learning on my own (with the help of the teacher at school) though I'm Sec. IV. Lol, I think I'm the only trombone player who practices now! In any case, if there is one who does, I haven't seen anything. Used to be a guy who played in the jazz band though, but he graduated last year.
. I wear gloves too because of the allergy if you see a guy wearing white gloves, that should be me. Anyway, I'm also using an adapter for the mouthpiece since the music store hasn't received the larger ones yet and I used to use a smaller bore student model.
but I'm using the 6 1/2 to practice for marching season, which is why I bought the lighter holton. my marching band is playing 5 songs from West Side Story. This is my fourth year on the trombone, and I'm doing pretty well.
I've also finally found my trombone's real voice, which is an exciting thing for me. Let me rephrase that: I play soprano valve trombone Started playing when I was 11 years old, have been playing now for 25 years. I play 2nd trumpet in two different community bands. One I have been a member of from the start the other for just over a year now. The last few years health problems have limited my playing unfortunately, with no improvement in sight. Perhaps to compensate I started a website called The Conn Loyalist dedicated to Elkhart era Conn instruments. It's nice to talk to a different crowd than just the trumpet/cornet players! 
It's great to hear from you all, and I hope you'll do plenty of posting in this and the "serious" sections.... Hello. i would definatly say im new! only been here not even a week, still trying to get to know the place. with out getting yelled at by someone. l... i am an only kid and i luv to babysit my neighbors. . I'm the freaky short, girl who does too many school-involved activities!! I post my wierdness in chit-chat....
Well, at least now you have the fun of trying out different horns and finding the perfect one---again! 
but then again who new you would be coming back to the trombone. Sorry if I sound like I'm playing devils advocate here. (just kidding) At least you admit it.
i personally think that it should just be bones...lol. there is also a solo with our section leader and in Malaguena there is a soli for the our section and co section leaders. our band is also going to the Sugarbowl this year!!! but i unfortunately can't go...so sad! ok...well i do believe i've written enough. lol...im me or "pm" me if ya wanna talk! ) to play his final movement from the Odessey, Itahaca. As you can probably tell already I would much rather play in a concert setting that march on a football field. I enjoy marching band but I just feel that it doesn't help me in my musicianship as much as concert does. I think that the new band director has something for musicals. His first year(last year) the field show was Grease and this year it's The Wizard of Oz. Oh, I forgot to mention there are 5 trombones in my section at school, 3 playing 2nd and 2 playing first or 2 playing 2nd, 2 playing 3rd and 1 playing 1st. I'm not going to get into who's the best player or whatever, that would just waist your time and that would be bad. Well, I'll start to be a regular poster around the forum.