Trombone History
The Trombone
Sitting in a dark room there is dead silence... all of a sudden the spotlight shoots on and there in so sorrowful ...such emotion. Such beautiful music, the audience almost mistakes the sound as a human voice. The trombone is a musical instrument that while there were many changes throughout time can be linked back through the thresholds of the universe. However there will only be time to talk about The chemical elements and their origins, the creation of music, and the evolution of brass wind instruments. First and foremost The Trombone is made of an alloy of 70% copper and 30% zinc known as yellow brass. Copper’s origin while still under debate this is one way it could have formed.
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As brass became more common instruments started to use it for it is easy to mold and shape and the medieval trumpet was created it has a more versatile sound that the animal horn design that were used in army marches but the where in only one key at a time it was hard to play melodies. The medieval trumpet slowly morphed into the sackbut, a trumpet like instrument with a slide tube to extend the length of the instrument . The sackbut was the predecessor to the trombone and had thicker tubing with a smaller bell (shown above). The sackbut had a softer sound, had no tuning slide (which is located at the top of the trombone) and yes, no spit valve it was first introduced to orchestras in the early 1800s. As time past more forms of the trombone were created like the piccolo trombone, tenor trombone, valve trombone, superbone, bass trombone, and the contrabass trombone.
Today trombones are used in Jazz, pop, classical, and other forms of music with it being able to mimic the human voice it is able to be in all types of music. The Trombone will hopefully be continue to be use for centuries to come and future generations will enjoy the instrument all all others for
Sitting in a dark room there is dead silence... all of a sudden the spotlight shoots on and there in so sorrowful ...such emotion. Such beautiful music, the audience almost mistakes the sound as a human voice. The trombone is a musical instrument that while there were many changes throughout time can be linked back through the thresholds of the universe. However there will only be time to talk about The chemical elements and their origins, the creation of music, and the evolution of brass wind instruments. First and foremost The Trombone is made of an alloy of 70% copper and 30% zinc known as yellow brass. Copper’s origin while still under debate this is one way it could have formed.
Copper may have originally formed …show more content…
As brass became more common instruments started to use it for it is easy to mold and shape and the medieval trumpet was created it has a more versatile sound that the animal horn design that were used in army marches but the where in only one key at a time it was hard to play melodies. The medieval trumpet slowly morphed into the sackbut, a trumpet like instrument with a slide tube to extend the length of the instrument . The sackbut was the predecessor to the trombone and had thicker tubing with a smaller bell (shown above). The sackbut had a softer sound, had no tuning slide (which is located at the top of the trombone) and yes, no spit valve it was first introduced to orchestras in the early 1800s. As time past more forms of the trombone were created like the piccolo trombone, tenor trombone, valve trombone, superbone, bass trombone, and the contrabass trombone.
Today trombones are used in Jazz, pop, classical, and other forms of music with it being able to mimic the human voice it is able to be in all types of music. The Trombone will hopefully be continue to be use for centuries to come and future generations will enjoy the instrument all all others for