[Trombone-l] Rim Survey

[Eliezer Aharoni]

 1)  Do you consider yourself a professional trombonist or an amateur 
trombonist?
- Yes (a retired professinal, still active in teaching).

 2)  Do you regularly play trombones of differing bore size (i.e. small
 bore tenor and large bore tenor, or bass and tenor)?
Yes - not reugularly - most my horns are large bore, but I play a euphonium 
(Yamaha 361) and valve trombone with small bore.
As well I often play my students' small bore horns.

 3)  Do you use the same size mouthpiece rim on the different sized 
trombones?
Yes - even same cup - thank to a Doug Elliot mouthpiece that allows me 
changing the rim on my bass trombone cup.
Actually I have 4 different shanks:
Bass trombone; small tenor; tuba, and European medium bore (yes, such an 
animal exists) which fits my bass trumpet and and old
medium bore Amati tenor trombone which I have. Also fits some euphoniums in 
the music school where I teach.

Best Wishes

Eliezer Aharoni

Former bass trombonist, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

Author: New Method for the Modern Bass Trombone (1975)

The Non-Classic Bass Trombone (2008)