1802—Frankfurt, Germany

Heinrich Christoph Koch describes an alto trombone in D in his Musikalisches Lexikon: “On the alto or quint trombone, the notes receive a different relationship to each other with the three just-described slide positions, for the first provides d, a, d’, f’, a’ and c”; the second c, g, c’, e’, g’, and b’; and the third f and b” (Guion 82).

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