INTRODUCING THE VALVE TROMBONE! Valve Trombone 101 

As a professional euphonium and tuba player, I feel like I missed a valve trombone education. Thank you so much for posting and informing me! Excellent stuff.

Great video! This explains why some Italian operas have technically difficult licks for trombone, such as the Act I opening notes of Verdi's La Traviata and the ending of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. They were probably often played on the valve trombone.

What a nice surprise to find a video on valve trombones! Very nice job, Keith!

Not even a minute into this video and I can already tell 100x more effort went into this than the others. Good work!

I started my music career on a slide trunbone. After learning the valve trombone I progress to all other brass instruments that had valves, Base cliff and trouble. Cliff. Turn out to be an easy scholarship for college

I know why alot of orchestras switched back to slide trombone, the intonation on the valve trombone wasn't really in tune. This was way before they added valve triggers to the 1st and 3rd valve slides to help improve the intonation.

My son has been playing in band for several years and tried a couple different instruments until he found the slide trombone and he really likes playing it.

The Flugabone is a Marching Variant of that instrument wrapped like a Flugelhorn. It reminds me of the great Juan Tizol who played with Duke Ellington

As a former baritone/euphonium player from my highschool and early college days (even a season of DCI), I've been intrigued by this instrument bc I noticed they use it a lot in banda and I'd love to buy one eventually. The only problem seems to be that all my mouthpieces are large shank and these seem to only be small shank if I'm not mistaken??:/ Thank you for making this video!!

Thanks for the excellent tutorial of the valve trombone. Maybe next you can spend a minute or two on the differences between a regular sized valve trombone and the compact valve trombone. Both keyed to Bb. Thx!!!

I've been playing slide trombone for 35 yrs - and recently learned to play the valve trombone - it's a blast to play - I'm sorry I didn't pay much attention to it years ago.

Thanks for this informative video. Although I had heard of the valve trombone long before, I've watched a number of the CCB orchestral videos from Brazil where this instrument seems to use this instrument exclusively. As I had mentioned in one of your other videos on the valve trombone, now I know how to hold my 1916 Conn 4-G. (With a little luck, I'll eventually find the best way to hold my Conn 16-E mellophonium (perhaps there ISN'T a standard way for this one!).

Slide triggers for the 1st and 3rd valves would allow the valve trombone to play in tune.

Great video! I had a chance to play a Blessing Valve trombone about 10 years ago. It reminds me of playing a barbitone.

Great video...I actually hadn't seen a valve trombone being played until a few years back on the beaches in Rio de Janeiro!

Very informative. I learned a good amount in a short time. Thanks.

I used to play valve trombone back in high school marching band when the baritone horn got to be too heavy to carry around during summer parades.

One regional tradition that uses the valve trombone is the sardana cobla. It's an 11-piece orchestra that accompanies the sardana, the national dance of Catalonia. This ensemble uses one valve trombone alongside two trumpets and two C bass Flügelhorns.

As a tuba and euphonium player, I occasionally ponder adding a valve trombone and have even seen valved alto trombone, which would be interesting.

These are also common in Tejano & Conjunto Music.

That’s the instrument I started on when I joined the Portuguese community band 37 years ago here in Canada 🇨🇦 for marching and there role was more for boom chucking in our style of music, and easier to March with and to learn the fingering patterns across the board. Music was written in all treble clef. What’s funny now is the European bands especially Portuguese are using slide trombones more now and kinda disbanded the valve due to younger players playing in different groups and better full sound that you don’t get with a valve trombone.

great vid.

Juan Tizol played Valve Trombone

Could you demonstrate the alto Eb valve trombone?

In the '70's and '80's valve trombones where on the inventory roles for Army Bands. That way a euphonium player could help out in a stage band in a pinch.

I'm a new player and having difficulty finding a position where it feels like there's "room" for me in between the bell section and the valves section - every time I play I feel like I am crammed in and the tubing is pressing sideways into the left side of my neck... Does anyone have any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

Hi,Ive played alto tenor an baritone saxophones for 18 months every day .Will I have ahard time ajusting to a valve trombone an which trombone is the bset to start with

Miraphone makes Valve Trombones with Rotary Valves

Actually you can also use Valve Trombones in Marching Band too cause you don't have to worry about breaking your slide.

I wish you had played it a little... demonstrate what it offers and what it loses.

I bought my Conn valve trombone from my neighbor for $100. I paid about $200 to have it cleaned up and adjusted and it was ready to go. I definitely prefer standard slide trombone, but the valved instrument is kind of a fun novelty.

I have one of that yamaha valve trombone. 1. Is that yamaha valve trombone is key of Bb? 2 is yamaha slide trombone and Yamaha valve trombone are the Same sounds? Thank you in advance.

What are some good buy cheap beginner valve trombones that I can buy?

These weird instruments fascinate me. Is this interchangeable with a slide trombone in an orchestra? And does it play similarly to other 3 button instruments in the brass family? For ex a lot of fingerings in trumpet translate to the French horn. Same same here?

Are there good v trombones being made today or is is better to find and old Conn?

where do i buy i valves trombone in the us

Can it also slide or just valve?

How common is the valve trombone nowadays? I imagine it’s only in a tiny fraction of performances.

once I saw one with 4 valves

The Sinaloa (México) banda has german origins.

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