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Meet Our Trombone Playing Expert
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Summary: Learn about the bell of the trombone and what it does in this free video music lesson.
JD Keating is a musician, artist and educator from Western Massachusetts. For two decades he has lent his varied talents to innumerable projects in the music industry. In 2003 he...read more
"Well now the next piece that we have is the most flamboyant part of the trombone. It's the bell and it is the area where as you can see there is a complex taper that goes on the tubing gets bigger as it goes to the bell. The bore gets bigger and that is how the air now the way that these instruments are bored and created particularly with modern manufacturing techniques have made it very I would say much more easy to keep an instrument consistent and in tune with the modern music that's going on. On the back of the bell there is your tuning slide. Which slides out and mine is giving me some trouble of course. We will snug it out a little bit. Sometimes a little, gentle rap always helps and a little wiggle. Well, that's the tuning slide but it's stuck and we can get to that in maintenance with my old trombone."
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Comments
vardaman said
on 9/13/2008 JD, you seem to be a reasonably good brass player, but you're no trombonist, and your "expert opinions" could be harmful to aspiring players. I've looked over your videos. You have almost no knowledge of slide positions, your slide technique is poor, and you don't even know how to assemble the horn properly. What makes you think you're an "expert" on the trombone?