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Month: July 2009

Trombone History: 16th Century Paintings of Trombonists

July 31, 2009 wkimball
Trombone History, Trombone Images, Updates

Added several new images to the 16th Century of the Trombone History Timeline. They include, respectively, a detail and 2 paintings by Caravaggio (the less-famous Caravaggio, sometimes known as Polidoro Caldara) (c. 1520, Rome, Italy), as well as a detail…

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Trombone History: Early Trombone Method Books, Other Updates

July 31, 2009 wkimball
Alto Trombone, Trombone History, Updates

I continue to add to the Alto in Treatises page. As indicated by the subtitle of the page (treatises, dictionaries, and methods), my criteria are quite broad for this post. I recently added a trio of early trombone method books:…

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Trombone History: Lyon & Healy Alto Trombones

July 29, 2009 wkimball
Alto Trombone, Trombone History, Trombone Images, Updates

Added the below entry to the Alto Trombone History Timeline. Lyon & Healy, a Chicago company that later specializes in manufacturing harps, offered numerous models of alto trombones, both slide and valve, all pitched in E-flat. Several other companies, including…

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Trombone History: Beethoven's Drei Equali

July 28, 2009 wkimball
Alto Trombone, Trombone History, Updates

Added the entry below to the Alto Trombone History Timeline. It includes information from a firsthand witness about Beethoven’s Drei Equali, arguably one of the most important works in the history of the trombone. Among the noteworthy observations about the alto…

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Performance Order and Repertoire in Competitions

July 21, 2009 wkimball
Playing Tips

We sometimes speculate as performers about what effect the relative order of a performance may have on the outcome of a competition, audition, or jury grade. An intriguing study published by Flores and Ginsburgh in The Statistician, available online here, sheds…

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Trombone History: Update from Museum of Musical Instruments–Poznan, Poland

July 20, 2009 wkimball
Alto Trombone, Trombone History, Updates

An update from Patryk Frankowski, senior assistant at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznan, Poland: Mr. Frankowski has shared information about 2 additional alto trombones, both pre-1800, not listed in Trevor Herbert’s book, The Trombone, or subsequently on my…

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Just for Fun: Images from 1894 Catalog

July 18, 2009 wkimball 2 Comments
Just for Fun, Trombone History, Trombone Images

The following are some entertaining images from a 19th century Lyon & Healy catalog (Chicago, 1894). For other holdings from the catalog with more importance to trombone history, visit the Alto Trombone Timeline. For the full reference to the catalog,…

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Reduced Lung Capacity with Diabetes

July 11, 2009 wkimball 5 Comments
Breathing

A study published in Diabetes Care in April 2008 found that people with “adult onset” diabetes (type 2 diabetes) experience reduced lung capacity. All adults experience a natural decline in lung capacity (and lung function in general) after it peaks…

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Artificial Lip Mouthpieces

July 8, 2009 wkimball 1 Comment
Just for Fun

I was reading through the 1894 edition of Lyon & Healy’s Band Catalogue, primarily to look at their trombone holdings (they offered a surprising variety of alto trombones, but more on that in another post), when I came across this…

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Note from Museum of Musical Instruments–Poznan, Poland

July 7, 2009 wkimball
Alto Trombone, Trombone History, Updates

Got a note this morning from Patryk Frankowski, senior assistant at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Poznan, Poland. According to Mr. Frankowski, one of the alto trombones listed by Trevor Herbert in his book, The Trombone, and subsequently listed…

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