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Renaissance Trombone Art: 1 Artist, 3 Names, 3 Images
I recently added the second image below to the Trombone History Timeline (16th Century). It’s by Pieter de Witte (c. 1548-1628), also known as Peitro Candido and Peter Candid. He was probably born in the Low Countries, grew up and trained in Italy, then spent his career in Ital...
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Angel Trombonist in Italian Switzerland
I just added the below image and caption to the Trombone History Timeline (17th century, first half). I also added it to the HubPages articles Angel Trombonist Throughout History and How to Hold a Sackbut: The Grip of the Early Trombone in Pictures. It’s nice to see the tro...
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Serpents & Ophicleides: 16 New Historical Images
I recently added 16 more images of serpents and ophicleides to the post Serpents & Ophicleides: History and Images, bringing the total to 120 images. I’m not sure if you can find that many historical pictures of serpents and ophicleides anywhere else, at least in any one place....
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Two New Baroque Trombone Paintings
I just added two new paintings to the Trombone History Timeline. They are shown below, along with their captions. I have also added them to the post, Pick That Thing Up and Play! 11 Trombone Paintings from 17th-Century Flanders (which was formerly titled 9 Paintings from 17...
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Will Kimball Recordings
Collage: A Diverse Collection of Works for Trombone (Will Kimball, trombone & Timothy Smith, piano)
Gershwin, Three Preludes (arr. Kimball)
Bloch, Symphony for Trombone
Faure, “Pie Jesu” from Requiem (arr. Kimball)
L. Mozart, Concerto for Alto Trombone
Plog, Tr...
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Better Cherub Image, Plus 2 Additional Views
I recently found a clear color image of the trombone-playing cherub in Milan’s San Simpliciano. I have replaced the old, blurry, black and white image in the Trombone History Timeline (16th century) and in the HubPages article, Trombone History: Cherubs Playing the Trombone (...
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Website Cited in Two Books
I mentioned some time ago that this website had been cited in the Historic Brass Society Journal. I was excited to see more recently that the Trombone History Timeline was cited several times in the 2nd edition of Carter and Kite-Powell’s Performer’s Guide to Renaissance...
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Six New Serpent and Ophicleide Images
I’ve added 6 new serpent and ophicleide images to the post Serpent & Ophicleide: History and Images, bringing the total images in that post to more than 100. Here are the new pictures, along with their captions:
1673—Rome, Italy: Athanasius Kircher includes a print and de...
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More Angel-Trombonists
The top image by Roncalli was posted several weeks ago, but I recently added the bottom two images to the Trombone History Timeline. They are apparently all part of the same set. Readers may be interested in seeing more angel-trombonists here, and more depictions of the grip...
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16th Century Cherub-Trombonist
I just added a new cherub-trombonist to the Trombone History Timeline (16th century) and to the HubPages article/collection, Trombone History: Cherubs Playing Trombone, amounting to 11 such images that I’ve been able to gather up. If you know of more, let me know!
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