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The English Trombone

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 9:39 am
by robcat2075
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Note from abroad in the NYT...

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Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 9:47 am
by soseggnchips
Guilty... :shuffle:

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 12:11 pm
by BGuttman
Sounds like Sam Clemens...

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 12:17 pm
by Doug Elliott
I think it just highlights the general perception of what a trombone sounds like.

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri May 21, 2021 3:29 pm
by stewbones43
I've always had problems with my nose in 7th position.

Stewbones43

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 3:38 pm
by DougHulme
Is that why the euphonium players in front of me ask am I playing my trombone or blowing my nose?

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 3:46 pm
by BGuttman
DougHulme wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 3:38 pm Is that why the euphonium players in front of me ask am I playing my trombone or blowing my nose?
I thought with a bass trombone you would have the Baritones in front of you :wink:

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Sun May 23, 2021 9:10 pm
by robcat2075
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How DO these things get started?

I mean, there just is no similarity between the sound of a trombone and the sound of someone... oh... nevermind...



Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 1:47 am
by DougHulme
Bruce wrote - I thought with a bass trombone you would have the Baritones in front of you
You are absolutely right but I thought that since most forum members are from The States I'd say euphonium - everyone would know what one is!! I do like to share the love though - the euphoniums still complain... I dont understand - whats not to like about a bass trombone in full flow? :idk:

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 4:27 am
by stewbones43
DougHulme wrote: Sun May 23, 2021 3:38 pm Is that why the euphonium players in front of me ask am I playing my trombone or blowing my nose?


Can't they hear the slide handle rattling when you are playing your bass trombone? :shuffle:

I'll let Bruce explain that to the younger US trombone playing community, perhaps with a video of him demonstrating his Whaley-Royce bass. :lol:

Cheers

Stewbones43

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 5:52 am
by Oslide
Is it considered PC here to make jokes on people with short arms? :???:

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Mon May 24, 2021 8:29 am
by BGuttman
Oslide wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 5:52 am Is it considered PC here to make jokes on people with short arms? :???:
In this topic? No. But there are others ... ;)

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 2:28 am
by BaritoneJack
DougHulme wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 1:47 am
Bruce wrote - I thought with a bass trombone you would have the Baritones in front of you
You are absolutely right but I thought that since most forum members are from The States I'd say euphonium - everyone would know what one is!! I do like to share the love though - the euphoniums still complain... I dont understand - whats not to like about a bass trombone in full flow? :idk:
I've never understood that confusion; baritone horns are emphatically not euphoniums - any more than trumpets are cornets! Two different instruments, each with it's own distinctive sound, and each with its own job to do in the brass band (which is, of course, why they are built differently from each other!).
With best regards,
Baritone Jack :wink:

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:17 am
by Basbasun
BaritoneJack wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 2:28 am
DougHulme wrote: Mon May 24, 2021 1:47 am

You are absolutely right but I thought that since most forum members are from The States I'd say euphonium - everyone would know what one is!! I do like to share the love though - the euphoniums still complain... I dont understand - whats not to like about a bass trombone in full flow? :idk:
I've never understood that confusion; baritone horns are emphatically not euphoniums - any more than trumpets are cornets! Two different instruments, each with it's own distinctive sound, and each with its own job to do in the brass band (which is, of course, why they are built differently from each other!).
With best regards,
Baritone Jack :wink:
Yes. In brass bands the euphoniums are in front of the tenor trombones and baritones in fromnt of the basstrombone.
In (mixed) windbands a euphonium is often plying the baritone part. In german windbands the baritone was called teonor horns, the tenorhorn was called alto horns.

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:19 am
by Basbasun
"I mean, there just is no similarity between the sound of a trombone and the sound of someone... oh... nevermind..."
That is the idéa. The trombones is used as a contrast to the conically horns.

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:29 am
by BaritoneJack
@Basbasun - "In (mixed) windbands a euphonium is often playing the baritone part."

I didn't know that, Basbasun - thank you for the info!

With best regards,
Jack

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:25 am
by timothy42b
BaritoneJack wrote: Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:29 am @Basbasun - "In (mixed) windbands a euphonium is often playing the baritone part."

I didn't know that, Basbasun - thank you for the info!

With best regards,
Jack
When I played in community bands in the 70s the folders and parts were marked baritone. It was considered pretentious to call it a euphonium. We now make a distinction between two similar instruments that would have been not commonly used back then.

Re: The English Trombone

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:31 am
by boneberg
Loud nose blowing - it's a European thing