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 * The Trombone **

The Trombone is a brass instrument that belongs in the aerophone catagory. There are two main types of Trombone: the tenor and the bass. Music that is written for the Trombone is mainly in the bass clef, but can also be written in the tenor clef like the Bassoon. Trombones have been around for over 600 years, but the name has changed a bit over time. It looks very similar to it's predecessor, called the 'sackbut,' coming from the French word 'saquer' meaning, to push or to pull. The Italian word for Sackbut is trompone, so that would probably be where the English word came from. Although the name has changed, it can still be recognised by it's destinctive 'S' shape. To produce a sound, the person playing the instrument has to buzz their lips together and blow into a mouth piece. This mouthpiece is shaped like the Trumpets just a little bit bigger in size. Most other Brass instruments have button-like valves, where as the Trombone has a slide valve. When played, this valve is slid away or towards the person playing the instrument. The further away it is slid, the lower the pitch of the note. When the slide is positioned as close to the mouth piece as possible, the total length of the instruments tubing approximately reaches nine feet (about 2.7 metres).


 * media type="youtube" key="xT2OaXpqJYk" height="346" width="421" align="right"The Trombone can be played in many different styles such as jazz and classical. Here is a video of a Jazz Trombonist.
 * There are seven positions on a trombone. When atrombonist wants to make the pitch higher or lower, he/she has to change their lip formation. When your lips are loosely held together then the pitch of the music has a lower tone and when your lips are held tightly together, the sound that is produced is much higher in pitch.
 * With the Bass Trombone, the tube that makes up the body of the instrument is just that bit longer than the Tenor Trombone.
 * A different version of the Trombone, the Valve Trombone, is also often known as the bass Trumpet because it uses the same valve system without the slide.

//**__ Construction __**// The Trombone is made out of Brass and possibly other metals. The obvious structure of the trombone is the Bell, which is the big opening through which the sound is emitted, the main body curling all the way around to the Slide and then leading back up to the mouthpiece. When the Trombonist assembles his/her instrument, there are various parts to join together. The mouthpiece, Slide and main body are all separate parts making up the instrument itself. When it comes to cleaning the instrumnet, the separting parts come in very handy. It is much easier to clean something that comes apart than something than tryig to clean something that comes in one piece. Making a Tombone is a very hard thing to do and takes a lot of skill. Here is a video of a Trombone being made.media type="youtube" key="G5LqrMcq1QE" height="324" width="416" align="right"
 * As you can see, making a Trombone takes a lot of patience and skill. There are many processes that make the final construction chain that takes about 50 hours.
 * As you heard, the Trombone is made out of brass and all the joints were smoldered together to make up the final product.
 * You may have noticed that the Trombone that was depicted being made was not actually a tenor, but a bass Trombone.


 * Here are some pictures of Trombones.**





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