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The valve trombone is a brass instrument in the trombone family that has a set of valves to vary the pitch instead of (or in addition to) a slide. Although it has been built in sizes from alto to contrabass, it is the tenor valve trombone pitched in B♭ an octave lower than the trumpet which has seen the most widespread use.
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The trombone ( German: Posaune, Italian, French: trombone)...
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The bass trombone (German: Bassposaune, Italian: trombone...
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A valve trombone was produced around 1830 in Vienna – interestingly enough, the city which, in the eighteenth century, had sustained the clearest and most distinguished line of fine slide trombone playing. According to Andreas Nemetz, who obviously knew no differently, the inventor of the valve trombone was indeed a Viennese maker, Josef Riedl.
Jul 1, 2013 · 1923—A photo shows valve trombone player Juan Tizol with Duke Ellington’s orchestra (see below image; public domain; source: wikipedia commons). A Puerto Rican native, Tizol becomes a longstanding member of Ellington’s orchestra, performing with the group from 1929 to 1944.
The valve trombone is a lip-reed aerophone of Europe that was disseminated worldwide in the 19 th century through European colonialism and through cosmopolitan connections with the Americas.
