Trombone can be weird.

In British style music the notes are in treble clef and in Bflat.

In American trombone it's bass clef and read in C so they learn different positions for the notes.

In some cases it's bass clef and in Bflat.

Of course, as instruments go it's pretty much perfect in that you never need to tune it per se. You just play out of or into the note.

And trombone players are consistently weird, talking and joking all the time no matter which band they are in. And they seem to stick together at parties like they are a separate society. I have a bone, and can actually play some stuff, but because my other horns call me I leave it in the case most weeks, sigh. I want to get in on that horsing around and stuff. When everyone at practice gets serious I put on my clown nose.

John Conley
Musica est vita