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March 23, 2025

Painting shows a blond woman in a pink dress dancing with her hand raised. Around her are members of the band playing trombone, trumpet and clarinet.

Have beings from outer space landed in Heck’s Pantry? Will Falk stop the inhuman aural assault on Parabellum City? How come I don’t get no bassoon solo in the commercial? Listen to find out!

A Song of Brass and Ash, episode 126 of This Gun in My Hand, was blown until it was windy by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Sisyphus, Eat Your Heart Out, available in paperback and ebook from Amazon. How do I get to Carnegie Hall? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. When searching for a sad trombone sound on freesound dot org, I found this cache of 91 twisted and screwed public domain trombone sounds by user PhonosUPF, most of them sounding nothing like a trombone. I’m not using all of them here, but they inspired this episode.
https://freesound.org/search/?q=phonosupf+trombone

2. The Hall of Justice shown in the 1970s Super Friends cartoon was based on the design of Cincinnati Union Terminal.

3. I can’t tell if the Zurich Baroque Ensemble’s recording of Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in F Minor includes bassoon as Jojo claims.

4. Young James Marshall Hendrix carried his guitar with him everywhere he could, to school and to friends’ houses, practicing all day. 

5. This Gun in My Hand podcast has existed longer than the Confederate States of America.

Credits:
The opening music clip was from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

The nineteen sound effects named below were created by PhonosUPF.
https://freesound.org/search/?q=phonosupf+trombone
In order of appearance in this episode, they were:
1. Trombone grave (501269)
2. Trombone grave 3
3. Trombone grave 2
4. Trombone metal 2
5. Trombone grave (490995)
6. Trombone stretching 13
7. Trombone signal 13
8. Trombone sequence
9. Trombone stretching 6
10. Trombone percussion
11. Trombone blow 2
12. Trombone set
13. Trombone blow
14. Trombone signal 14
15. Trombone grave 5
16. Wagnerian trombones
17? Trombone melody
18. Trombone glissandi
19. Trombone metal 5

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav

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