It's Finished! The Homemade Superbone 

This is perfection in the trombone world, no further improvements or leaps forward can be made

It's been awhile since I tuned in for one of these and dang, Trent! You're cutting quite the handsome figure these days! Whatever you're doing, keep up the good work!

You should record a short piece written for instruments in various keys, Bb trumpet, F Horn, C trombone… but every part is played on this bone with slide transposition. No pesky rewriting or mentally transposing. Set the slide, play what’s written.

Ooh! Please build a trumpet which has ad-hoc transposition capabilities. No more difficult keys!

Great job Trent! This was a difficult project but you pulled it off well. My high school band had one of the original Frank Holton Superbones in the instrument closet. It wasn’t in great condition but it was fun to play. It’s surprisingly ergonomic since they designed the valves to sit shorter and be easier to reach. We used it as a bass trombone replacement. Personally I loved it for jazz playing, if I had the money for one I’d try and get one of the Schagerl rotary models.

I always learn something from your videos, Trent. Today I learned “ad hoc” means “out of tune.” Latin is no longer taught so much here in the United States of Americaland, so it’s good to pick up that phrase and I can’t wait to sprinkle it about in conversation with my friends down at the center of our culture, the 7-11 parking lot.

Well done! Your deadpan voice sarcasm is so good sometimes I cannot tell which of you remarks are serious and which are not... Nonetheless good job on the instrument.

try changing the levers on your USSR cornet to be able to play it horizontally instead of vertically

I'm thinking: 7 valve positions x 7 slide positions = 49 possible ways to play a wrong note. Fun!

Did you lose weight Trent?

Hey Trent, haven’t seen one of your videos in awhile. Just wanted to let you know how much you impacted my inspiration when I first started out playing trombone. Also, you look amazing, I hope you enjoy the holiday season.

Trent, you have amazing abilities how to totally bodge up successfully made instruments. I love your superb sarcasm!!! Keep it Sir. We need to see you on a daily basis with something new, if you can facilitate that!..... Kind regards from England. Den Finch.

Pretty dang spiffy. It would be neat to see some attempts to clean up the cosmetic issues. This type of DIY brass instrument repair is pretty tricky and often yield results that make the overall appearance of an instrument go down rather than up despite the intent. So this is the perfect test bed for experimenting with such techniques since it might actually be impossible to make this ugboniphone look worse at this point. It has been really cool to see you branch out into taking apart and resoldering brass instruments, and more of this would be great on some of your other project horns. But cosmetic repairs, refinishing/laquer would be fun to watch too.

They used to call me the superbone back in college but not because I was a band geek (But seriously tho, this is such an incredible project! Amazing work, now make a supersousaphone 🤪)

This is amazing! Could you play a song while slowly extending the main slide, to give a "falling" feeling?

honestly, get a stamp that says "New Zealand Custom" or something that sounds fancy, and sell it! ;) :P

Market it but place the joint that had been left out, in order to make it more robust, sound, and stable.

Might it be possible to flip the second valve back around and tuck its slide in between the valve block and the bell section? That would take the big lump out from under your palm, which I think would go a long way toward making the instrument not feel like a prototype. It would be worth it, because it sounds fine and that's always the most important part to solve.

Great work. But a "superbone" with only one bell? There's room for improvement there. Why settle for one bell when you can follow Adolphe Sax's fine example and make a trombone with not one, not two, but seven bells? Surely that will be true perfection.

It is perfect in every conceivable way... Except in every way.

Bro how do you homemake an instrument? This is actually really impressive!

I was laughing so much I had to rewind a couple of times to hear what you said next. Have you considered doing stand up comedy? I'm sure you'd be great at it with that deadpan sarcastic delivery.

Most of my superbones are homemade to

have a plunger on a flap spring connected to the bell. rig up a trigger to you thumb so you can wah wah and superbone at the same time.

Hey Trent great video but I was watching some of your old videos and I just wanted to say how much better you look and well but also the confidence you’ve gained over the last 5 years or so, thanks for the vids

Mr. Hamilton, I just want you to know how good you look sir, whatever you have been doing it’s working, you look amazing

It is in fact a perfect instrument

That's right people. Trombone. The sexiest and most virile of instruments...

Perhaps making left handed superbone would allow not modifying the trumpet body so much.

Up there with the Guttenberg Bible, and Neil Armstrong's hike on the moon.

Not knowing diddly over squat about playing (much less overhauling) brass instruments, I suppose I'll just have to take your word on this one

Next get a three trigger bass trombone and challenge yourself to trying to play higher tenor literature through only using the triggers and not the slide.

Add bass trombone triggers lol

ah, so I can now play 144bpm 2/4 semiquavers with ease now. perfect. might throw in a few glisses here and there.

I honestly want one I would genuinely pay good money for something so beutiful

early for yet another masterpiece

Make a trombone with a multi-wrapped slide? I once made a double wrap tenor, and it brought the fundamental down to D quarter flat. Using calculus, I estimate a third slide length would bring it down to Ab0 (so its pedal notes would begin right below the range of the piano.) Ab contrabass trombone. Then a fourth slide length would lower it to the E quarter flat below. You'd just have to figure out how to hold four adjacent slides and attach a sufficient counterweight for your E quarter flat subcontrabass trombone.

Christ, what an abomination! 😂 utterly brilliant.

Congrats that's epic that you finished such an undertaking of a project!

is there room enough to graft a trumpet on for that multi-capable musician?

As a non trombonist the standard reply as to what you should do to improve the tone would be to launch it down a very deep pit followed by a few tonne of ballast! Other than that it seems quite a successful amalgamation of brass parts!😂

it’s pizza time

Looking good Trent! Been a while sense I watched you

You should try adding a rotary trigger to make it that much better. But other than that I think it's perfect.

This was super cool. I would love to see more experimental instruments in the future.

Holy shit, I haven’t watched your videos in a while and I hardly recognized you because of how much weigh you’ve lost. Congratulations!

I like this

Oh yeah I totally have a tromboner right now

It's a trumbone a trumpet and a trombone!

“what are you doing” “oh just blowing my superbone”

should get james morrison to try it

Great job! It sounds great and this should be done for the trombonist who wants this variety of trombone.

That is gorgeous, you could make a business and sell these if you really wanted to! Can’t wait to see your other ideas!

That looks ace! Now all you need is to add a quarter-tone valve and it will be ready for the orchestra outing!

Trent what was the piece you played when shown your finished super bone?

So I’ve been wondering about the possibility of making a soprano superbone. As far as I know, no one has made one. I’m thinking that a pocket trumpet may be the right thing to add to the slide section of a soprano trombone…what do you think?

I wonder if... You could use the Valves as like an F Attatchment.

would a Super-Bass-Bone make any sense? like with a 4th valve?

Functional comparison between a straight tenor, an f attachment tenor, a two valve bass, and THAT

Move aside, Schagerl. There's a far superior model in town now!

Would it be possible to place the valve block on the slide? I know that the trombone needs to slide but it would be really cool

DUDE YOUVE LOST SOME BLOODY WEIGHT!! GOOD FOR YOU! that is so awesome. i see it, i recognize it, and i 👏 for you. your efforts have not gone unnoticed!

YOOOO A EUPHONIUM SHOUT-OUT BECAUSE OF THE ONE IN THE BACK. I feel so accomplished and honored

5:35 It is impossible to change the primary key with a slide. When the key is lowered by a semitone, the length of the tube required to lower the key by another semitone increases. The 1-2pos length and the 2-3pos interval are longer in the latter. It makes more sense to change the key with the valve and adjust the difference in spacing with the slide. Same for 7pos (2pos) fine adjustment when using the F valve. (Sorry. I use Google traansrator.)

"Homemade Superbone" was my nickname in highschool

Hey I love your brown rusty tenor flugelhorn in background! These isntruments are great and missing in UK!

@Trent Hamilton Auction it for charity or something. I’d love to see what it sells for!

OMG! After demonstrating every rare and weird brass instrument ever made, you are now developing your very own weird and wonderful creations to elevate the glory of lip-wind instruments to musical heights hitherto unimagined. Priceless.

Don’t wanna be that guy, but wouldn’t it have been easier to just use the slide with your left hand, (using the trombone mirrored to what you normally would, with the counterweight behind your right shoulder), rather than reorganising all of the tuning slides? Then you’re also using the valves with your right hand which is the more common approach to use for most brass instruments (everything apart from French horns off the top of my head). Also, instead of rings or hooks for your pinky and thumb, maybe a bar that could join to the valves replicating the tubing you hold on a tuba? Just a thought, that’s all

Could you please do a video reviewing and giving the backstory of loud mouthpieces(actual company name) they are really unique mouthpieces which play like no other

I just subscribed after watching this video. It's been a while since I watched one of your videos and I didn't recognize you. Great job on the weight loss. It will be av great benefit as you get older. Trust me.

Dude, I play trombone. You expect my fingers to work like that?

All I see is a trumpet with a slide, or I guess a trombone with valves since that’s basically the only difference between the 2

buy the largest indian sousaphone 25 inc. they became cheaper and began to cost $ 300. There are no reviews on youtube)

I once had a Holton Superbone and my trombone teacher told me it was an abomination. The sound was actually quite stuffy.

I mean this in the nicest yet funniest way... This is Andrew Garfield Spiderman if he was into music instead of being Spiderman.

My friends plan on life is to make a Cyber trombone. A trombone that is bassically automated to your skill level tunes to the temperature empty’s spit on its own. And has its own ability tune along with being able to change keys without pressing a button

No offense but I haven’t watched your channel in at least a year and you look like you have lost weigh. If you’re trying to lose weight good job keep up the good work.

Can I have it? I’m a tuba playing looking for something more convenient to play in my back yard and annoy my neighbors.

Off subject but good job on the weight transformation brotha. 💪

Reveiw a plastic tuba I know they've made them

Shagurl in Eastern Europe make a super bone using rotary valves that is quite spectacular. You can view its demonstration here on you tube. The valves are located near the front brace bt your left ear. James Morrison demos the instrument for all to hear.

What is the song played at the end and this is truly amazing

Wow. You look great man. You are way slimmer than you were. Sorry not trying to be mean. Have a great day!✌👍

I was never a fan of the valve trombone. There are plenty of trumpets that can give you the same sound and tone quality. Other than the transposition option.

I see now why rotation about the longitudinal axis would have been silly.

Thanks brother. Did u use trumpet 🎺 valves .

I can't get over the fact that I'm looking at skinny Trent now. xD

Duuude, you looking good! havent seen any video in more than a year. Kudos!

Needs a percussion attachment Maybe a bell or drum

So much deadpan that I took it as over confidence at the beginning

Now make a 4 valve plus trigger Superbone

It only taken you a couple months to lose all that weight? Insane

Did you loose weight not trying to be rude but it looks like you lost weight did you

no one gonna talk about his weight loss, incredible 👏

Is this a "trum-bone" Or a "trom-pet"?

Awesome man, it looks a lot better from the beginning. Well done 🔥❤️

Horn player here. Make it rotary valves 😂 why not

Make a multitrack with it!

Mass production is the next logical step.