1904

Music critic C. L. Graves says, “The trombone is specially interesting as it is practically the only wind instrument now left in its natural condition, and not furnished with simplifying mechanism. To this immunity it probably owes the unimpaired splendour of the tones which commended it so peculiarly to Gluck, to Mozart, and to Schubert. Mendelssohn’s remark as to the reverence with which its solemn tones should be employed is justly admired, and on another occasion he admitted it, by implication, along with other wind instruments, into heaven, on condition that they never got behind the beat (Graves 12).