On 23-Feb-08, at 6:08 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:
John Howell wrote:
OK, to ask something seriously, did you have any trouble learning
to adjust your slide positions when you had to pull your F slide
to E?
To E?? I've played on horns that allowed you to switch it to G,
but ... what possible benefit would you getb from tuning to E?
On single-valve bass trombones (that used to be the only kind) you
had to add about 4-1/2 inches of tubing to get a low B without faking
it. Usually they pulled the valve slide when they saw a B coming up.
Tenor trombones with F valves still have the capability to pull to an
E tuning for the most part, so it isn't gone into the depths of
history yet.
Some serious orchestra players prefer to play bass trombone on a
single-valve instrument. They claim it is much freer-blowing. I have
to agree with them, but in my free-lance work I need the second valve
too often to be able to pass it up. If I were only an orchestral bass
trombonist, I might be able to get away with it.
Christopher
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