Trivia
You can trill just by moving your mouth
Piano players might be familiar with trilling, which is playing two adjacent keys ("D E D E D E D E") over and over. You can do the same with a trombone. The only difference is you don't use your fingers. Instead, you use your lips to trill. Leave the slide in the same position, and produce a sound as you quickly switch back and forth between blowing methods.
Example of lip trilling
Musical Instrument Guide:Trombone Contents
Structure
How to Play
How the Instrument is Made
Choosing an Instrument
Care and Maintenance
Trivia
- God is in the trombone
- The trombone was a bit of a problem for cavalries...
- A trombone that would scare even a snake!
- Two instruments, both tenor, but quite different!
- A trombone player walks into pawnshop...
- You can trill just by moving your mouth
- It is possible to increase the pitch even as you extend the slide
- Famous pieces from trombone concertos
- Orchestra pieces in which the trombone plays an important role
- The Yamaha quartet
- For trombones, why does sheet music notation differ from the fundamental tone of the instrument?
- A bass trombone-with an F attachment only