John Howell wrote:
I think that may depend heavily on who, exactly, you're talking about
in the '80s. Symphony trombonists, and those training them, may
indeed have thought in those terms, but it's a cinch that people in
early music were not, since most of us are looking at baroque and
classical practice from the starting point of the renaissance, and not
the high romantic period. And as the "authentic instrument" concept
moves ever forward in time, we're seeing both alto trombones and
rotary valve trumpets coming back into use. Not that there's ever one
and only one way to perform anything, but today's large bore trombones
didn't exist in the 19th century, let alone the 18th.
John
The larger bore tenor (originally called a "bass" trombone, but
eventually used by the whole section in some orchestras) certainly
existed by the latter 19th century, and the large bore bass was coming
in to use, if not by the end of the 19th, by the early 20th in some
parts of Europe. Localities varied.
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