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So this is sheet music for trombone, you can tell by the slide position suggestions above certain notes. I assume they expect the player to have an F attachment, because 0 position is F, however the note is G, so they would need to press down the trigger to hit it (I think , it’s been a moment since I’ve played a horn with an F attachment). Some of those symbols I’m not as familiar with.

Maybe the joke is they play the trombone, which intrinsically is a joke of an instrument.

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It looks similar to a fragment of a minuet from Brahms. I recognized it from an elementary study book of mine (Suzuki vol. 2 for violin). It gave me nostalgia and I had to find it…

So, because it’s in an elementary study book (assuming it is easy for trombone as well), maybe the joke is that when practicing alone you go for easy things that you like instead of what you should be practicing.

Whole piece for reference:

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12 points

You know, violin makes more sense- half of those slurs make 0 sense on trombone.

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You can slur any 2 notes on a trombone with good tonguing and a fast hand.

On a trombone, you always tongue with “Ta” and “Ka” sounds for a good articulation, but when you slur with notes that have different positions you tongue with “Da” and “Ga” sounds instead. During the brief moment where your air isn’t moving you snap your hand to the next note’s position, and the result sounds similar to slurring between fingerings on a trumpet.

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That’s not trombone, that sheet music is treble clef, trombones are bass clef.

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12 points

That is it, but my joke is only about the face in the middle of the picture.

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in the middle? Can you point it out? I don’t see it

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I have a King trigger trombone in storage that I haven’t played in a couple of decades and change. I kind of want to go get it and give this a shot to see if I get the joke. But that may be more effort than I’m willing to put in.

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Is it perhaps the “womp womp” sound on the trombone?

https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/sad-trombone/

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4 points

It looks like violin fingerings to me.

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4 points

I’ve been playing trombone for 23 years. There is no 0th position.

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21 points

Anyone wanna tell me?

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13 points

Its just the face in the middle of the image

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17 points

Besides seeing a lil face here I don’t get the joke :c

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12 points

You got the joke, it was just the little face

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13 points

I don’t get it

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there is a face in the middle of the picture, and it is starring into my soul and judging me

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11 points

So sick of jokes that need to be explained

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