[Trombone-l] Trombone for new elementary school player

Wed Mar 4 09:27:14 CST 2009

Yamaha makes a brilliant instrument in Bb with an ascending valve to C.  Sure, low E is gone, and perhaps F is unreachable, but C and B _are_ and that's what it's built to do.  Seams like a great (if expensive) idea.

Some have advocated Alto... I've heard worse ideas...

J.c.S. (ready to duck as people tell me how wrong that last line was!)

---- Price Taylor <pricetaylor at comcast.net> wrote: 
> He's tall for his grade/age, so he might have the arms for it.
> 
> When playing my Conn, I use the F side pretty infrequently (depending on
> passages), I generally play 2nd part in a Trombone choir.  I've worked a bit
> over the past year on using alternate positions, so I find myself using a
> lot more of the slide that I used to.  It's definitely more economic in
> slide movements but one has to get used to the different sound...length of
> the tubing causing different overtones.
> 
> I just didn't want to jump into a valved horn until I saw real interest!
> 
> Price
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:12 AM, <bjmchaffie at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> >
> > =====
> >
> > 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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