[Trombone-l] How to learn about F attachment

[George Butler]

My favorite method book for young high school level players just starting with the F attachment is Reginald H. Fink's Introducing the F Attachment for Trombone, published by Accura Music in 1993.  It's about $14.00.
   
  There are six chapters, each with a theme such as, "Learn to play Bb and Eb in very flat third position."  Each chapter starts with some introductory exercises by Fink, in half notes and whole notes, then quarter notes, that make the student compare, say, normal third with the low third position.  Then, there are some folk tunes that Fink has arranged around that chapter's theme.
   
  But, the most valuable part of the book are the short vocalises interspersed throughout by G.B. Frosali.  These are bouncier, more detached vocalises than the lyrical Bordogni or Concone vocalises.  They are not hard, very tonal, and not too low.  Musically, they might strike some as a bit corny, but I like them.  I find that they are a great way for me to start back on the horn after a short vacation.
   
  The book finishes with some Remington smoothness and relaxation studies on scales in legato, some scales into the low register, and scales in a diatonic pattern.  There are also a couple of pages on rotary valve maintenance.
   
  After this, I'd go to the O. Blume  36 Studies for Trombone with F Attachment, as edited by (again!) the late Reginald Fink, published by Carl Fischer.  (Another edition of the Blume published by Carl Fischer--with a similar-looking cover--is for the straight horn.)  
   
  Then, Bach 'cello suites:  the d minor suite is a good one to start with.
   
  George Butler
  Lasnamäe Muusikakool
  Tallinn, ESTONIA

 
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