[Trombone-l] Berlioz, Beethoven

[Howard Weiner]

At 09:27 04.01.2008 -0800, Tom Izzo wrote:

>Let's not assume the 18th & 19th century Altos were in
>Eb.
>German Altos were common in F long before Eb, & didn't
>you tell us that the French had D Altos?

Tom,
German altos were not common in F long before E-flat. As far as I've 
been able to determine, the F alto is a 20th-century invention. The 
early altos were in D (E-flat at modern pitch).

The French don't seem to have used alto trombones until the middle of 
the 19th century, when they were built with valves, rather than a 
slide. But that's an area that I'm not very familiar with.

Howard


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