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Although rare on the E ♭ alto trombone, a valve attachment usually lowers the instrument a perfect fourth into B ♭, providing the first five or six positions from the tenor trombone slide. Some alto models have what is called a trill valve , providing a small loop of tubing that lowers the instrument by only a minor or major second, into D ...
In instruments such as the trombone and slide whistle, moving the slide is the way to select the note while playing. Attempts to adapt other wind instruments to use slides instead of tone holes, keys or valves have been tried; for example a slide saxophone was invented in the 1920s by Chicago instrument maker Reiffel & Husted. [1]
Scheme of a French horn (view from underneath). #2: Leadpipe.. In a brass instrument, a leadpipe or mouthpipe is the pipe or tube into which the mouthpiece is placed.. For example, on the illustration of a trombone, the leadpipe would be between #3 and #4, the mouthpiece and the slide lock ring.
The Superbone can be played as a slide trombone, a valve trombone, or in combination. Using the slide and valves in combination requires the slide positions to be adjusted, just as when using the trigger of an F attachment on a tenor or bass trombone. Using the slide with the first and third valves engaged has the same effect as using an F ...
The soprano trombone (sometimes called a slide trumpet or slide cornet, especially in jazz) is the soprano instrument in the trombone family of brass instruments, pitched in B♭ an octave above the tenor trombone. As the bore, bell and mouthpiece are similar to the B♭ trumpet, it tends to be played by trumpet players rather than trombonists.
Jones is in his element here - with chirruping flutes and big trombone slides that capture the joie de vivre of the carnival. He also makes prominent use of a cuíca, the Brazilian drum that ...
The valide trombone is a hybrid valve trombone invented in the 1940s by jazz musician Brad Gowans. [1] It features both a set of three piston valves and a slide to vary the pitch. [2] The slide on the valide is positioned within the valve section and is shorter than a regular trombone slide, only covering four slide positions instead of the ...
A cleaning company has been fined $171,000 after federal investigators found 11 children working a "dangerous" overnight shift at a meat processing plant in Iowa. The U.S. Labor Department sa id ...