[Trombone-l] Angular Trombone

[Borden, Lawrence]

Folks,

 

While not so much a technologic achievement as the Superbone, the
angular trombone of Davis Schumann is a strange beast. I have an almost
perfect one and when I pulled it out and showed it to Kenneth
Schermerhorn, or conductor at the time, he said, "Oh, yes. Davis used to
come around every ten years or so in New York and try to sell his
angular trombone to the New York public schools. He thought that they
could start younger with the angled slide." 

 

The angular trombone is interesting and even though foreign to the feel
- not that hard to play.

 

Larry

 

Lawrence Borden

Associate Professor of Trombone

Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University

Principal Trombone, Nashville Symphony Orchestra

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