[Trombone-l] Trombone for new elementary school player

[bjmchaffie@aol.com]

Is your 10 year old physically large enough to reach 7th position.? That would be a primary decisionmaker for the choice of instrument.? If he is not, then a Bb F trombone would be almost a given.

beldon wade


-----Original Message-----
From: Price Taylor <pricetaylor at comcast.net>
To: Trombone List <trombone-l at samford.edu>
Sent: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:06 am
Subject: [Trombone-l] Trombone for new elementary school player



I asked this a couple of days ago..but might have used the wrong e-mail
address (I use multiple e-mails and consolidate them with Gmail).

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Hello list, my youngest son is 10, in 4th grade, and is expressing an
interest in playing the trombone - of course, that's great (I think...)!

I started playing in 5th grade but the current thinking now is 6th grade - I
think that's because the middle school has band?

I was thinking that this summer might be a good time to get an early start
and begin playing.  Many years ago, I bequeathed my old King Cleveland to my
high school, that was my first trombone.  Guess I should have kept it, it
was pretty hard to hurt that horn.

I'm looking for recommendations for a beginner's trombone - ideally
something to last to 9th grade.  The Yamaha YSL-354 appears to be the choice
of many, although I have no experience with Yamaha trombones (I play a Conn
88H and King 3B).

Any other suggestions?

Thanks list!

-Price
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