[Trombone-l] Pagliacci

[Eliezer Aharoni]

Hello
The trombone section in Italian Opera in Verdi's time consisted of three 
trombones and "trombone basso", all of them valve trombones.
The instruments came from military/rural bands, mainly from local industries 
(like Orsi) that were not very sophisticated.
The valve bass trombone was pitched in F, with three or 4 valves and its not 
a contrabass (that is a German tradition),

Eliezer Aharoni
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Subject: [Trombone-l] Pagliacci


> Does anyone (Howard?) know what instrument the "tuba" part for 
> Leoncavallo's Pagliacci was actually written for?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> J.c.S.
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