What is a Slide Trumpet?
Annette Boyle
i've heard recently of a slide trumpet. can someone please post what
exactly that is? i have a bizarre imagination.:)
pb
Dean Rayner
(Annette Boyle) wrote:
> i've heard recently of a slide trumpet. can someone please post what
> exactly that is? i have a bizarre imagination.:)
>
Quite simply, it is a small trombone. about 1.5 feet in length.
--
=====================================================================
\_\_\_ \_\_\_ Dean Rayner
\_ \_ \_ \_ City of York Scouts Founder Member-95
\_ \_ \_\_\_ Cybercorps 1994 - oblivion
\_\_\_ \_ \_
If you put a cow in a glass of Coke overnight it won't be there in the morning
=====================================================================
=====================================================================
Paul Dhuse
: > i've heard recently of a slide trumpet. can someone please post what
: > exactly that is? i have a bizarre imagination.:)
: >
: Quite simply, it is a small trombone. about 1.5 feet in length.
Actually, that's only about half right. There are two kinds of slide
trumpets in the world. The first would be the English slide trumpet
(played by the Harpers) around the time of the invention of the cornet
and later. It used a slide to correct for the missing pitches, sort
of like have really quick change crooks. It looks nothing like a
trombone.
The other one does look like a small trombone. Depending on who you get
one from (manufacturer) and the bore size, it might also be called a
soprano trombone. It is played like a trombone, but hitting a position
dead on (which is required) is MUCH harder than on a tenor trombone.
And aportamento (~glissando) are not as simple as they look.
--
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Paul R Dhuse | I'm tired of playing tentatively.
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company | I'm going to start playing boldly
dh...@trusty.lmsc.lockheed.com | as I've never played before.
(408)756-0068 | (with apologies to Star Trek)
Grant Schampel
section instead of a valve section. A soprano trombone has the bore,
bell, *and sound* of a trombone (darker than a trumpet, with a burr to
it), an octave above a tenor trombone. Different sounds, different
purposes. Likewise, a tenor (often mistakenly called "bass") trumpet is
different from a tenor valve trombone; different bores, bells, and sounds.
It would, I suppose, even be possible to have a soprano valve trombone,
which would be different from a soprano valve trumpet; and a tenor slide
trumpet, which would be different from a tenor slide trombone; but I doubt
that any such have been made.
--
Grant Schampel
Laboratory Information Systems, University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinic
Box 198 Mayo Bldg., 420 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0392 (612) 626-3539
Opinions are my own, of course; not my employer's official views
also GCSch...@aol.com
Robert L Auger
because if you're off just a little bit you'll be out of tune (think of
how little you adjust your tuning slide to tune). The neat thing about
it that it actually has the tonal quality of a trombone and not a
trumpet, since there is only two curved sections.
Bob Auger
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Matthew Perry Woodward
different from the "modern" slide trumpet. Actually, there are even
sub-categories of the baroque early classical slide trumpet. The slide
trumpet of Bach's day (used in some of his Cantatas) was operated by
sliding the ENTIRE INSTRUMENT on a sort of telescoping leadpipe. There
is another English slide trumpet also called the "Flatt Trumpet" that has
a mechanism which extends a slide, if I have my facts right, at the back
of the trumpet (basically the bend of the bell would slide). This "flatt
trumpet" can be heard in Purcell's music for the funeral of Queen Mary.
Later English slide trumpets operated in a slightly different manner than
both the flatt trumpet and what we now think of as a slide trumpet.
Matt Woodward
mpw...@jove.acs.unt.edu