[Trombone-l] 51 positions of the trombone?

[Steve Gamble]

I tell my students that 'there are a million positions on the
trombone...you want to try and learn them all?'  Best just to listen.

Steve Gamble, Librarian
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
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-----Original Message-----
From: trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu
[mailto:trombone-l-bounces at samford.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Spindel
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:20 PM
To: Trombone-L
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] 51 positions of the trombone?

51 positions?  76 positions?

I think you might as well take the position (pun intended) that there 
are NO fixed positions on a trombone.  They vary from horn to horn, 
player to player, mouthpiece to mouthpiece, day to day, temperature, 
plus more I'm sure I'm missing.  Every note should be listened to and 
tuned appropriately.

Of course, handing a trombone to a beginner and telling him there are 
no fixed positions is not a useful teaching paradigm.

I don't have access to the book, so I don't know the author's 
intent.  But is there really significant information added of use to 
a player to assume 51 positions rather than 7 positions that must be
tuned?

Howard


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