[Trombone-l] bass trumpet

[Howard Weiner]

At 21:16 18.06.2008 -0700, Tom Izzo wrote:

>Close, but no cigar. It actually translates closer to "large" 
>trumpet. Which I've always contended was misheard & should have been 
>"ENlarging" Trumpet, (slide moves out, looks like a trumpet 
>enlarging). Remember when the terms "Trumpet" & "Trombone"'s were 
>coined, there weren't yet valves, but there already were slides.

Not true, Tom! When the terms "trumpet" and "trombone" were 
coined,  slides were not yet in use, or at least not yet on brasswind 
instruments. And after a certain point in time, it is precisely the 
use of different forms of the word "trumpet" that make it possible to 
suppose the existence of a "slide trumpet" (although this has been 
called into question in recent years) and then the trombone. And even 
the German word "Posaune" predates the invention of the slide by at 
least a couple hundred years (for example, in Parzival by Wolfram von 
Eschenbach, early 13th century).

Howard


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