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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]
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 ...
Slide Hampton is one of the few left-handed trombone players. As a child, Hampton was given the trombone set up to play left-handed, or backwards; and as no one ever dissuaded him, he continued to play this way. [4] [5] At the age of 12, Slide played in his family's Indianapolis jazz band, The Duke Hampton Band.
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 ...
Rath Trombones was founded in 1996 by instrument technician Michael Rath, and is Britain's only trombone manufacturer. [1] Rath's 12 craftspeople create as many as 500 trombones per year, exporting instruments through 25 distributors in North and South America, Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan.
At ten years old, Bill got his first trombone, "...an old King trombone for $20 at a local second hand shop," he says. He began practicing with the aid of an old Victrola and a 78 rpm of John Philip Sousa marches. His music teacher would come by once a week, and for his first lesson, tied the slide on his trombone so that Bill could not use it.
Art Farmer & Slide Hampton in Concert (1984) World of Trombones is an album by American trombonist, composer and arranger Slide Hampton , recorded in 1979 and first released on the West 54 label.
Ed Byrne was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1946. [2]Since the 1970s, Byrne played trombone as a sideman alongside many of the New York jazz scene's most well-known jazz artists (e.g., Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Mingus, Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, Manu Dibango, and many others).