The first chair trombone in our band isn`t too careful about keeping his slide in, and one day, in the middle of a song, he let go of his slide and it flew right into the stand of our bari sax player, knocking the stand amidst the flutes and narowly missing his head. The slide survived without a dent, though.

Here is a good one. I play in the pit orchestra at my high school, well last year during 7 brides for 7 brothers, someone went too far out on a kick/jump/whatever they were trying to pull off, hit my trombone with their foot, which then smacked into my head, which then caught on my earing that u just got, and ripped it out... Blood everywhere, and my teeth were hurting as well, cause i was actually playing it. This was all caught on tape... so i have proof... it wasnt a fun night.

i was playing once when in the middle of march of the irish guard my and the person sitting nect to me slides caught
behind the stand as we went from sixth to first position we hit the stand it fell forward smacked a saxophone right
on the head rolled over and took us with it. it was pretty funny though.

i also have gotten my fingers caught in the slide. Also, i hit the back of the sax`s chirs too. but i actually fell on my two month old Besson and bent both inner and outer slides. So i brought it to the music shop, they gave me a loner trombone, a crappy conn in crappy condition. After three months, they finally decided they could not fix it and they would give me a new one. But when the guy came from the back room, he had a new yamaha ! i thought i would give it a try. I put it together at my house, and the first thing i noticed is how the slide was so far away from the bell. the part where you put your shoulder never curved back in to straighten out the slide. there was also two huge rings around the slide lock and the tube below it. plus it was really un comfort able feel to it. so i brought it back and demamded a besson. and sure enough i got ol` bessy back.

It all started when a drumer climbed on top of the lockers to get a base drumb mallot. It was a wooden base drum mallet not a normal padded base drum stick. any way while he is up there i open my locker and pull out my blessing student model pos that is like 2 years old. i put it together and then start putting my case away I latch it and pick it up by the handle with my left hand horn in the right. At this point it is important to note that i used to share the locker with a base clarenet player so im working to force my case back in and all the sudden my horn is ripped from my hands. I turn slowlw because the "Wump followed by wimpering" was a little annoying. have you ever seen what a 150 lb person can do to a trombone when they jump from a 12 foot locker and land anus first on a tuning slide. The slide was bend and the outer slide literally broke at the U nere the spit valve and much like an upside down "V" but kinda bent on 2 diferent axis. the bell well lets call it a dinner plate with a drane hole now was flattened against one side of its self and the tuning slide never moved again.

I guess i didnt get hurt though.

We were playing Finlandia in orchestra and the girl next to me on a tenor trom had all these low Ds so I pointed out to her that no, you cant play low D on a tenor and she goes "Yeah you can" and then showed me by going into "8th" position and her slide fell off the end and hit the bassoon player and caused him to half swallow and break his reed.

hey dudeo. i havnt messed up my fingers ...yet but i have got my trouser leg caught on my spit valve...therefore, when i try to lift up my trombone my leg goes with it heehee
i have also forgot to unlock my slide and tried to go out into 6th position and gone flying lol!!

Yamaha does not suck...i play one...and i think of it, though dented and scratched as it may be (its my marching horn), as my treasure...like a diamond in the rough i guess you could say...its all in your personal preference...

and no...that has absolutely nothing to do with trombone accidents...but i felt that it needed to be said...

hmm...lets see in one year what have i done... hmm....i have...for 4 days straight, my slide has flown off the end because im not paying any attention, i have cut my thumb open on the end of my slide...if you move your slide very fast and the slide comes off and instead of the slide going back in, your thumb does and it cut it open...i have at a football game jetted my slide out into the people in front of me...which i should include is also like 3 feet under me, the slide jetted out of my hands and into the persons back and into the ground...theres only a very very small nick where it hit the wooden bleachers. i have stepped on my school horn by accident, and someone before me sat on it, i have, on my good Conn 88HY-CL bent the water key so it didn`t cover the hole...but luckly it bent back, and i have dropped my school horn before...and i have had blood blisters before

omg wednesday in band rehersal going from 2nd to 6th real quick i accidently missed the bar in the middle of the slide and i just like rocketed it off. but the worst part was it hit the girl sax in front of me and knocked her unconsiouse! I felt so bad she was rushed to the nurse and the back of her head was bleeding.but what matters is that there was no damage to my slide! hip hip hooray!

forgot to say i`ve never got my finger stuck in my slide....well actually when it was off the inner slide one day i had just the outter slide and i was cleaning it and i poked my finger in to the top hole at the end of the slide and of course...it got stuck. but nothing a little soap cant fix. you know lube it up slide it right back out.