[Trombone-l] trombones and choral music

thetubameister@adelphia.net thetubameister at adelphia.net
Thu May 3 09:14:49 CDT 2007


I don't have a website, and I think publishing the archive could get me thrown into jail for along time - It's taken from all over the web for my own study.

It is quite cool - sorry I can't share :-(

J.c.S.

---- Keith Marr <Mail at gothicway.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: 
> Do you have your digital archive on a website? If so I'd be interested in 
> the URL.
> 
> The Bb bass trombone would look the same as a tenor trombone, or for that 
> matter an alto trombone of the period. According to method books of the time 
> the only difference was the size of the mouthpiece.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Keith in Bb/F/D
> Bass Trombone
> St Albans Symphony Orchestra
> North Herts Big Band
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <thetubameister at adelphia.net>
> To: "Howard Weiner" <h.weiner at online.de>
> Cc: <jamesmeador at hotmail.com>; <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>; 
> <BJMCHAFFIE at aol.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 1:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] trombones and choral music
> 
> 
> > There's one question I have.  I can certainly buy that this part is 
> > perfectly playable without a valve, I have been studying the instruments 
> > themselves for years, have created for myself an imense digital archive, 
> > and I have never seen an extant period Bb Bass trombone.  The only thing 
> > close was an American 19th century Baritone Trombone in Bb.
> >
> > Where might I get the specs and perhaps a photo of something like this?
> >
> > J.c.S.
> >
> > ---- Howard Weiner <h.weiner at online.de> wrote:
> >> At 13:46 01.05.2007 -0400, BJMCHAFFIE at aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >> >Howard, even in the 20th Century Bflat large bore Tenors especially
> >> >were still being called bass trombones.   I have been flamed a
> >> >couple of times in my references to this, but now y'all are a comin'
> >> >up with that terminology.
> >>
> >> Beldon,
> >>
> >> I've brought this up a number of times in the past eleven years in
> >> conjunction with the eighteenth and nineteenth cenuries.
> >>
> >> Howard
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Howard Weiner
> >> h.weiner at online.de
> >> http://howard-weiner.de/
> >>
> >> Tosca jumped to a conclusion.
> >>
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