Why is the valve-trombone not popular and not used in orchestra's?

March 16, 464 at 12:23 PM by glee-full | Posted in Other - Music

Q: I only see the slide trombone in a orchestra why is that ?

October 11, 2008 at 09:37 PM by

A: the valve trombone is uncommon like the alto trombone so it's not popular, while it's not used in the orchestra because the musicians in there need to concentrait on precise tuning instead of a quick change

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Jan 27, 2010

This year's Walter Payton College Prep's Humanities Festival will feature the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, Congolese music legend, Samba Mapangala and Chicago area band, Kids These Days. The benefit concert called "The G Concert: Raising 'G's for Ghana and Globalism" will be held at new The Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago on Sunday, January 31 at 6 p.m.

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More alto trombone history

•Added several more sources to the Alto Trombone Timeline. There are now more than 50 primary sources for the alto timeline (see alto trombone bibliography). Many of them confirm that historically the alto trombone was primarily an instrument pitched in the E-flat orbit (D, E-flat, F). 

•Also added a new post, called Alto Quotes, that offers a sampling of some of the positive aesthetic opinions that well-respected musicians and commentators have held about the alto trombone. It includes quotations from Brahms, Berlioz, George Bernard Shaw, Horatio Parker, Igor Stravinsky, Norman Del Mar, and others.

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