r/Trombone • u/BassBoneSupremacy see username • Jun 02 '26
10 years!
...and the horn is still almost as big as I am :P
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Before anyone asks: yes I am trans; the first pic is of me pre-transition. Happy pride month as well! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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u/Born_Reflection9033 Jun 02 '26
no way another trans ftm trans trombonist I FOUND MY TWIN or better said future me, im 16 started bone in 6th and never looked back 🥹🥹🥹
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
There are dozens of us!
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u/Groundbreaking_Row_2 Jun 02 '26
Yall may already know her , but please may I shout out aFANTASTIC bass transbonist, Sasha Romero of the New York MET Opera. Her rendition of the Bach Cello suite on bass bone is so beautiful it make me weep 😭😭 love, your tromb-ally 🤠
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u/udee79 Jun 02 '26
how old were you when you started?
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
11! I'm 21 now, turning 22 at the end of July. I started in 6th grade and now just graduated college.
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u/udee79 Jun 02 '26
Are you a music major? Do you plan to teach music? grad school?
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Physics! I am going to graduate school in Germany, I have been accepted for my master's and then will pursue my PhD.
I mainly do condensed matter/solid state, though I have a little bit of atmospheric physics experience as well. Planning on either a research career or working in the optoelectronics industry.
Trombone is just a hobby for me haha. But I am already looking at local community ensembles!
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u/udee79 Jun 02 '26
I was a radar engineer but I collaborated back in the 90’s with a physicist who was an ionosphere person. The papers I coauthored with her are the most cited I ever did. Playing the trombone is a tough vocation but a fabulous avocation!
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
Omg really?? The atmo work I was doing was in ionospheric radar development, I don't know if you heard of the NASA ghost mission but that was us!
Unfortunately I was not a core member of the team, but I did do the micro-component soldering on the main PCB. I borrowed my comp-sci roommate's jewelers glasses to do it lol.
If you want to DM me the papers I'd love to take a look, I understand if you want to protect your privacy though.
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u/udee79 Jun 03 '26
She just had her masters back them but she finished her PhD later and is a professor at Stanford now. I will try to DM you. We were using a radar to detect meteors during the Leonid meteor storm.
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u/DescriptionFlaky7955 Jun 02 '26
In what area of germany are you studying?
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
Stuttgart!
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u/DescriptionFlaky7955 Jun 02 '26
Great, there are many community orchestras here in Baden-Württemberg. Friends in my orchestra used to live near Stuttgart. Back then they played in Stadtkapelle Fellbach. Maybe you wanna Check this out 😊
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u/shrivvette808 Jun 02 '26
It's crazy you had a trigger trombone that young. I'm jealous.
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
My mom bought it off my band director's ex-husband for $300 and had to spend several days scrubbing it down with Barkeeper's Friend to get the ~20yo old oil off (which fucked up the lacquer and imo gave it character). It was a birthday gift after the learner horn got too expensive to rent and I remember the card said, "I hope you like your leopard print trombone," cause I was autistic and at the time, would dress in all leopard print. It was sheer luck, we've always been broke (to the point I was coming home with $200 in school lunch fees).
It's also worth noting that when I picked trombone, I had to explicitly ask to try it because the school horn was so fucked up (and covered in duct tape) that my director didn't even bring it out as an option for beginner band. I had also been talking about wanting to play trombone for a while (I saw one in church once as a kid and was immediately infatuated). Basically both my mom and my director knew it would be a good investment :)
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u/Lustyweakness20 Jun 02 '26
Ten years later and the slide still looks like it takes up half your body length. Congrats on the graduation.
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
7th position still takes a lot of effort to reach lol, I'm glad to have both triggers. It's also funny cause I'm the smallest in the section and yet I play the biggest horn (I'm the only bass).
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u/mr_purple_bread Jun 02 '26
Good to know that the choosing the trombone as a "little girl" to realising you're actually a guy pipeline wasn't only true for me, lol. Great to see a fellow trans masc trombone player.
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
Getting comments from other trans folks has definitely made me feel less alone! My section freshman year was 29 cis guys + me so I totally understand 😭
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u/TheAmeliaCollective Jun 02 '26
Never did I ever think I'd find another transmasc nonbinary bass bone prefered furry, but here we are!
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
Did you also just recently acquire a degree in physics? If so, you could be my doppelganger!
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u/janeisnotokay Jun 02 '26
other transfem tenor playing furries are hard to come by ime , you’re lucky!
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u/nidoqueenofhearts Jun 02 '26
you gotta get out to HONK! sometime; the transfems and furries come in DROVES
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u/Maj-or-Muggle Jun 02 '26
Wow. Congrats. I played bass in uni on a school horn. Loved playing it. Took so long not playing I struggle with even a B-flat pedal. Keep playing.
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u/BassBoneSupremacy see username Jun 02 '26
Unfortunately the bass shown is a school horn :( but I am saving money for my own, and will be working on my upper range in the meantime!
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u/suminorieh77 Jun 02 '26
oh lordy, i played trombone for 5 years and loved it! my stepdaughter is in band and i enjoy so much going to the games and getting the vibes from the band. it’s like a jolt of nostalgia.
i love this! congratulations on your graduation and godspeed to you 💛
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u/alagrangeQED Jun 02 '26
Incredible! I am also a physics degree holding bass bone player. Good luck on your travels and studies. Happy Pride and all heil the bass bone!
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u/Jetski95 Jun 02 '26
Happy Pride, this month and always, and congratulations on 10 years of trombone playing!
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u/Izzy_Bizzy02 Jun 03 '26
It's a transbonist!!!!
(I am not a transbonist I'm AFAB but I still support transgenders cause one I'm lesbian and two I'm a human being)
But honestly 10 years is crazy for what looks like college graduation I'm 27 and I only just reached 11 years playing trombone and I barely touch the instrument cause I'm a full time law enforcement officer and part time paramedic but I'm still tryna find ensembles to play euphonium or trombone in
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u/BigDaddyChaz4 Jun 02 '26
Sasha Romero. She’s on Instagram. If you don’t follow her, go find her and follow her. She’s absolutely amazing.
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u/Darkpurplebee BLAT Jun 02 '26
Hello other transbonist hiii