Cosmo Music / Cosmo Music - The Musical Instrument Superstore / Toronto, Canada. RHPO. Star & Stripes - Trombone. Trombone Page of the World. Browse the OTJ Article Library. Trombone. A person who plays the trombone is called a trombonist or trombone player. Construction[edit] A disassembled trombone. From left to right: mouthpiece, outer slide, bell section, inner slide. A tenor trombone mouthpiece The trombone is a predominantly cylindrical tube bent into an elongated "S" shape. The 'slide', the most distinctive feature of the trombone (cf. valve trombone), allows the player to extend the length of the air column, lowering the pitch.
Like the trumpet, the trombone is considered a cylindrical bore instrument since it has extensive sections of tubing, principally in the slide section, that are of continuous diameter. History[edit] Renaissance and Baroque periods[edit] When the sackbut returned to common use again in England in the 18th century, Italian music was so influential that it was known as the "trombone",[1] although other countries used the same name throughout the instrument's history, viz.
Classical period[edit] Romantic period[edit] 19th-century orchestras[edit] The Trombone Forum - Index.