[Dixielandjazz] Baritone as Trombone

[Mick Potter]

Hi Dick

Is that what a friend of mine calls a "Flugelbone". I have seen his and it looks and sounds like what you are calling a marching trombone.

Bill Haesler I am thinking of John Bates' Flugelbone

Mick Potter
Australia

Fr Mick Potter
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-----Original Message-----
From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Dick Miller
Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 1:51 PM
To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Baritone as Trombone

I'm a trad jazz trombone player (more than 50 years) whose slide bone sits
in the closet while I enjoy playing my Bach Marching Trombone. Not a valve
trombone (which looks like a trombone), not a bass trumpet (which looks
like a trumpet), not a euphonium or baritone horn (which look like a tuba
washed in hot water), it looks kinda like a cornet with a gland problem
(extra wrap of tubing). Same range as a trombone, same mouthpiece, reads
the same music (read? what's that?), sounds sorta like a bone, just a
touch mellower, but not as mellow as a euphonium. I have great fun playing
it, and it's a bit less brass to haul around. Getzen, Yamaha, and others
make them, too, but I find some of those horns a bit stuffy. This one
blows free and clear. Works just fine in a Dixieland group, except, of
course, for the glisses. That can be gotten around reasonably well with
some fancy valve and lip work.

--Dick Miller


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