The Aftermath - Contrabass Trombone RIP 

As a trombonist... I'm heartbroken RIP

Dropping any instrument is like dying on the inside, even something like a 3 dollar recorder.

As a trombonist, I almost cried during this and I have absolutely no clue how you are not.

drop the bass

As a fellow trombonist, when I saw you drop it originally, my heart dropped with it. R.I.P. Contrabass Trombone, you will be mourned.

Does this count as a bass drop?

I hate seeing a broken brass instrument, as a trumpet player myself, this pains me.

This is my biggest fear. A CONTRABASS TROMBONE!!! A $10,000 instrument. I'm so sorry. I play Tuba, I like bass brass instruments. So sorry.

I'm sure there is some watcher out there that can fix this. I know the feeling of mistakenly destroying an instrument. I personally dropped my tenor trombone at a stone floor and I couldn't afford to fix it perfectly but it is playable. I hope you/Trent can get it playable :)

man my biggest fear is dropping any of my instruments (even a cheap espndable one) thats devastating

Being Chinese-made might explain how it suffered such extensive damage. We had a Conn (made in USA) trombone get run over by a trailer that was then completely repaired.

I love to talk trash about trombones. However watching that drop and seeing the aftermath i am about as crused as that poor bell. I absolutly hate to see instruments go through such horror. Instruments to some people like Lamborghinis are to other. Beautiful things that are to precious to see broken. 💔💔 RIP Bass Trombone.

I can confidently say if I was playing it would sound exactly the same despite being dropped.

when he quoted "doesn't make financial sense" saddest thing anyone can hear

I have only ever dropped one of my trombones. I was practicing for a marching band and dropped it on solid concrete. The slide was bent to a 45 degree angle, the bell was just mangled and the support rod for the bell was snapped. Luckily it was only a £600 tenor trombone. I know have a £5000 Bach bass trombone. If I ever dropped that, I would be screwed

I'm glad to see you got this repaired in your latest video.

A part of me died when I saw the bell. RIP contraband trombone, you will be missed.

Something so valuable shouldn't have to go through such pain

As a trombonist in school this really breaks my heart! I'm so sorry for you

I just wanted to ask what a pedalbeater is

Im so sorry to see this, I don’t even play brass but it is so upsetting to see a fine peace of craftsmanship in a state of irreparable damage.

I am a young trombonist and any sort of trombone is my heart! I'm so so sorry that had to happen to you, ik it probably broke your heart more than mine whenever you dropped it and then hearing the news that it was totalled, I'm so so sorry this has to happen to you.

as a trombone player i almost cried during this, it hurts me not only too see my trombone get hurt but especially others, dont really know the contrabass trombone to well but i hope either you can get it fixed or you can get a new one, i realize this has been out for 2 months but im still sorry for what happened

man that sucks. really hope you can get a new one.

Sorry for ur loss 🙁

I've seen that clip several times of you dropping it but this is the first time I saw what happened after

You broke rule number one in beginning band - hold your instrument with two hands.

I don't think I'm ever going to hold my bass trombone with one hand again. If I ever drop that thing, I would probably cry. My band director would not be happy either.

I know how this feels, I dropped my first trumpet and the leadpipe broke off because of the way it landed. From one brass man to another, no one should ever had to go through the pain of putting an instrument out of commission

I know this comment doesn't help with your situation, but I hope you know that nothing you did was your fault. Everyone makes mistake except this one just meant a little more

love your vids bro

Baritone here, I'm very sorry about your Contrabass Trombone, I hope it got fixed within these 7 years.

I feel so sorry for you. I was holding everything back not to cry because I hate to see this happen to instruments.

this is late af but this actually made my heart skip a beat

Man I am so sorry

this pains me to see this as a brass player ;(

Twoset brought me here. This is really heartbreaking.

as for the slide, get one of those slide aligning things (I have no clue what they call them) or a thing you can use to push the slide tubes back into a straight level. I think you said the rotor wasn't moving because the trigger that it's attached to was bent all out of shape

This is heartbreaking

This deeply hurts me

I have a dent in the bell of my trumpet because I was oiling the valves and my hand had gotten oily and I had been walking away from my sink to my chair to play it and it slipped right out of my hands. It isn't that noticeable but I still feel bad about it because it's never good to drop an instrument, especially when its a professional instrument

i've dropped my trombone many times, but hearing it fall, and seeing the damage made my heart drop. I hope you could get another one soon.

This exact same thing happened to me in middle school, back in the olden days. Good times.

This is hard to watch

What kind of tools do you have? I would imagine that with a good assortment of hand tools and a blowtorch and solder that this could be your next project. It looks already pretty much screwed so you don't have to worry about making it worse. One of my best (and most frustrating) experiences I had was when I took a bottom rung student model bari sax (ready for the trash) and while not completing a full restoration worked on it until it came to the point where it could play all the notes and was relatively leak free. At this point all you can do is improve it.

I dropped my bass clarinet but it’s fine and now I immediately feel better about it after watching this

I felt so bad when u dropped the trombone because of your face when it happened😕😂rip

I'm sorry for the lost of your Contrabass.

You can see the tears in his eyes

I'll give you 150 USD for the bone and 100 USD to ship it if you don't want to repair it. I know a guy who can make it play better than it was straight out of the box

😦😦😦 RIP sorry for your loss man

Man that's a bummer

That's a lot of damage, for an approximate 2-foot fall, bummer, very sad.......

Just turn it off and on again

R.I.P man, R.I.P

For people asking how fragile these instruments are, they are very. The slightest dent on the inner slides would put you either out of time forever until fixed or just make you unable to play. Now just a normal Tenor Trombone is pretty light so dropping it from the height he did wouldn't be as bad, but a bass trombone is pretty heavy. And dropping one of those one a tile floor. Ouch.

Do you still have the comparison footage? Or was it shot out of chronological order?

this hurts

I have come very close to dropping my trumpet several times, but I always catch it with my foot before it completely hits the floor.

that breaks my heart to see

So Trent - do you still have the parts? I'd buy that bell section...

I’m a trumpet player and I’m sad that this happened

I have a question if you used a superbone bell section with the valves and connected a contrabass trombone slide section to it how low can you go?

aww man that really sucks, I feel so sorry for you :-(

it hurts. it hurts. I'm so sorry

My tenor trombone, an 85-100 year old H. B. Jay Chicago Columbia tenor, has a break between the slide brace and mouthpiece receiver.(A little similar to the break on your contrabass slide receiver part)However, it is not the solder that has came loose, the brass has torn in two. Would you recommend trying to repair the pieces, or just replacing them?

Will we get to see the comparison video

you should keep dropping it and see if you can fix it

I've had that problem before- dropped my tenor bone my freshman year and the pipe came straight out of the rotor, and the pipe that the trigger was on was bent. also my slide was dented but that didn't get fixed until this year (two years later) I don't remember how much it costs though... as yours is a larger contrabass and has a double slide

This video makes me sad.

i wanted to cry after that video

literally cried a lil

This pains me greatly

U must feel so much regret you poor thing! 😢😢😭😭😭

That sucks. I bought a tuba from eBay, that was about as beat up as that trombone, I took it to summerhays music, and they said that it would cost over $400 usd to repair. It made more financial sense to just return the tuba to the seller, so at least I got my money back. I feel sorry for you, that the trombone is ruined, I always hurts me to see a brass instrument in pain.

Somebody: drop the bass! Trombonists who dropped and broke their trombone: *war flashbacks*

I actually cried when I watched this.

Honestly I think it is bs that they Think it would be expensive to fix. I played a base trombone for a couple months and it doesn't seem that expensive to fix a slide. I know because I had my tenor trombone fixed this summer. I hope that someone can fix it for you bro.

hope u get a knew one it hurt when i saw it fall

A moment of silence for our fallen comrade

I feel for you. Goodbye, contrabass.

All I can say is at-least it happened with your instrument. I've had close calls with loaned and borrowed instruments. Still sucks that it happened though.

I'm really sorry about the trombone

:(

do you still have the broken trombone today? or did you chuck it out? edit: nevermind i saw your other video and found out it was fixed!! great job trent. remember to hold your trombones with TWO hands next time.

I dropped my tenor a couple months ago so glad there was no damage

my family does amateur instrument repair that trombone doesn't look too dissimilar to what we usually get before we repair it and ship it out, it looks very badly damaged but with enough work it could be repaired, although professional repair would as you said not be financially viable.

Why did it have to be my favorite of your trombones

Let's have a moment of silence for our lost comrade. *Tear*

I really can't keep my mouth closed.

Rip

damn, son. rip contrabass trombone

What are they saying you need to replace on the horn?

I had commented on the other video and I'll stand by what I said there. It didn't look THAT bad (though I didn't know about the main slide at that point). Just about anything is repairable. The question though is whether or not it's worth fixing. The damage to the bell isn't bad (I've seen worse). The support damage would be an easy fix. Same with the tubing sections that got pulled out. The rotary valve might be troublesome and require replacement, depending on what was wrong with it. The real problem is the main slide. Getting the alignment right on a standard slide can be a pain. Doing it with the double slide setup would be a nightmare. Wonder if they checked each one individually. If they did and each segment worked, you just have to get the alignment back. Given that it was a cheap Chinese model, it probably wasn't worth fixing.

I never dropped my tenor or my bass trombone; I understand High School band kids doing it.

Amaaaazing (contra) baaass...

Dang that sucks

How long did it take to come to terms with your mistake? Do insurance companies help in situations like this?

Ok thank you

did you get a new one?