Some pretty amazing playing:
Just for Fun
Just for Fun: Images from 1894 Catalog
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,…
Artificial Lip Mouthpieces
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…
Slow Motion Embouchure
The trombone embouchure as you’ve never seen it before. Not sure what if anything can be gleaned from this in terms of playing technique, but it’s kind of interesting to watch. There are also 2 follow-up videos on YouTube.
Just for Fun–Musical Roller Coaster
The ups and downs of music performance. Roller Coaster from crisoldemusicas on Vimeo.
Trombone Giants
Another of my former teachers, Scott Hartman, with 4 other great trombone players.
Murray Crewe on Contrabass Trombone
Bass trombonist of the Pittsburgh Symphony, Murray Crewe (one of my former teachers), on his contrabass trombone. The better to Bartok with…
Just for Fun
Decided to add a “Just for fun” blog category. Here’s a clip of someone soloing over New Soul with the iBone app. Lookout, Guitar Hero!