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Two More Renaissance Trombones
I just added the below entry and images to the Trombone History Timeline (16th century). Both are somewhat curious images that are likely to be an artist’s best attempt at a relatively new instrument (an instrument that is rather difficult to depict anyway).
1507—Augsburg, Ge...
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Renaissance Trumpet with a Trombone Engraving
I recently returned from a two-month trip to Europe directing a university study abroad program in Vienna. I will be posting several interesting trombone-related items I found or experienced in the places we visited: Vienna, Budapest, Salzburg, Venice, Florence, and Rome.
One...
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Trombone and Organ: More Perching on the Pipes
As you can see in the post Perching on the Pipes, there are numerous examples of trombone sculptures on organ pipes. Here is another example, below. I will be adding it to the Trombone History Timeline (17th century—first half).
1625-29—Gdansk (Danzig), Poland: An organ cas...
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What a World-Famous Anthropologist Wrote About Trombone Players
I just added the below quote by Claude Levi-Strauss, often called “the father of modern anthropology,” to the Trombone History Timeline (20th century). By way of comparison, you may have heard or read Garrison Keilor’s Young Lutheran’s Guide to the Orchestra, in which Keilo...
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The Baroque Trombone: 3 Preti Pictures
I recently added a painting by Mattia Preti to the Trombone History Timeline. Preti, an important artist of the Italian Baroque, actually included trombonists in several of his paintings. Those I have been able to locate are shown in chronological order, below, and can also be...
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Three Music Cartoons from Punch Magazine
I recently added three cartoons from Punch magazine to the site: the first in the Trombone History Timeline (20th century), and the other two in the blog post, Serpent & Ophicleide: History and Images (which has become one of the primary suppliers of images for the Serpent...
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Pair of Renaissance Angel-Trombonists
Yesterday I added these two images to the Trombone History Timeline (16th Century). I will also be including them in the collection, Angel Trombonists Throughout History.
c. 1590—The drawing, Coronation of the Virgin with Angel Musicians and All Saints, attributed to “Mas...
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Three More Serpent & Ophicleide Pictures
I just added three more serpent and ophicleide pictures to the post Serpent & Ophicleide: History and Images. Look for them soon in the Serpent Newsletter, as this website has become one of the primary suppliers of images for that publication!
Of course, as a trombonist, I...
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Baroque Trombone Among Emblems of Art, Science, and War
I just added this new image and caption to the Trombone History Timeline and to the post Pick That Thing Up and Play! 12 Trombone Paintings from 17th Century Flanders.
c. 1640—Antwerp, Belgium: Flemish artist Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert (1614-54) paints Amor Triumpha...
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Young Trombonist from Colonial Peru
Today I found a much better reproduction of this painting (at least the half of the painting that contains the trombone), and I’ve included the new detail shown here in the Trombone History Timeline (17th century, 2nd half). Look for it also in a couple of articles: Trombone H...
