[Trombone-l] Jazz Cimbasso

[Craig Parmerlee]

Yes.  If you can play a tuba you can play a cimbasso.

Most of them are now made with 5 valves, matching the popular tuba 
fingerings.  But considering they are typically pitches a4th or a 7th 
below a bass trombone, you don't really need to use the complicated 
fingerings very much.  If you play in the middle register, which is 
plenty low for jazz improvisation, you'll be on the first 3 valves most 
of the time, and they work like the first 3 valves on any brass instrument.


Daniel Pliskin wrote:
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> Is playing cimbasso all that different from playing other valved brass instruments?  
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> I know it's odd shaped and it seems to be more cylindrical than euphoniums.  But can anyone low brass valve player, who can afford one, pick up a cimmasso and play it?
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> DanP
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