International Trombone Week<p>NASA's news yesterday brought a tear to many an eye (incl this one). </p><p><a href="https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04</span><span class="invisible">/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/</span></a></p><p>Since <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trombones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trombones</span></a> relate to everything, here’s a story. </p><p>Composer <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DaveDeason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DaveDeason</span></a> observed his NASA engineer father's wind tunnel experiments and was amazed by the “incredible magic and power of the machines”. He thought about trombones.( As we all do. Or should. All the time. But I digress.) </p><p>Deason dedicated a wonderful piece to the Szeged Trombone Ensemble: </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/2KdWpLRg7LI?si=tVR-uNMuCLr4XGI3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/2KdWpLRg7LI?si=tVR-uN</span><span class="invisible">MuCLr4XGI3</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spitvalve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spitvalve</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a></p>