[Trombone-l] Superbone

[Eliezer Aharoni]

Hi Sean Patrick and list
The superbone is a very sophisticated instrument, enabling you two systems 
symoltanously: a slide (regular) and a valve system operated by the left 
hand. This enables endless posibilities, among them transpositions (for 
example: play a tune in Bb fingering with the valve and put the slide in 2nd 
position to transpose it to A, or vice versa - Bb positions with 2 valve to 
A, and all possible keys...)
I tried one who belongs to a friend in Israel. The left hand fingering feels 
odd to me (no french horn background...) and the general feeling was stuffy 
and not very responsive (can't tell if it's that's horn specificly or the 
model in general...

Prominent players that use the instrument:
Maynard Ferguson
Ashley Alexander

Also, I recently mentioned in my recent book "the Non-Classic Bass Trombone" 
a superbone player named Earl Mau
that plays with a group called Hired Geeks (look up their MySpace site). 
Earl 's e-mail is earl at hiredgeeks.com and I am sure he'll be glad to share 
his insights and experiances abot the instrument.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Patrick Flahaven" <spflahaven at aol.com>
To: <trombone-l at samford.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 4:27 AM
Subject: [Trombone-l] Superbone


> Hi folks,
>
> I'm new to the list, though a lifelong player as well as a 
> composer/conductor/orchestrator and now a music publishing exec. Sorry if 
> this has been covered recently, but I'm curious if anyone has thoughts 
> about the the Superbone (Holton TR395 MF), or can point me to articles or 
> other resources. I realize it's an oddity, but it's something that's 
> always intrigued me.
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> Sean Patrick Flahaven
> spflahaven at aol.com
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