1754—Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Trombones play for the first time in the community of Bethlehem, during the August 31 celebration of the Single Brothers’ Festival. The 4 trombones they use—a soprano, an alto, a tenor, and a bass—are presumably new instruments purchased recently from Europe (Peucker, The Role 174; Guion, Trombone 125). Later the same year they play their first funeral observance (Carter, Trombone Ensembles of the Moravian).