[Trombone-l] Trombone for new elementary school player

[thetubameister@roadrunner.com]

Thein did just that:

http://www.thein-brass.de/index_en.php

Go to instruments, trombones, and scroll to B-C trombone, and click more details.  I'd shoot people for this - light bass where your low C is a pedal note - what a godsend that would be!

J.c.

---- Adrian Drover <slide.rule at adiosmusic.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> > From: Behalf Of thetubameister at roadrunner.com
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> I've been wondering why a bass 'bone version of this instrument has not been
> made.   Add the F tubing and it would be fully chromatic down to pedal D (I
> think) which is more than enough for most purposes, the advantage being that
> low C and Bnat can be played as pedals, so less stuffy, and the instrument
> would be a little less heavy to hold.  Of course, there is the danger you
> might forget and go off the end of the shorter slide.
> 
> A.
>