1. About the BTS
(About/BTS)

...e website. Members gain free or nominal charge entry to all BTS events with the chance to meet, listen to, and learn from the greatest players and teachers, plus they also have the ...

2. Friends and Relations: The Sackbut
(Resources/Archived Articles)

...e Venetian canzona is the best-known and probably best-loved repertoire of most Renaissance instrumentalists. Sackbuts are indispensable in this music, a great deal of which is available from Music...

3. "The Improved Trombone": an essay in Edwardian ingenuity
(Resources/Current Articles)

...1901; Grinstead may possibly have been a trombone enthusiast who devised the original invention and enlisted the help of the manufacturer to sort out the practical problems. What, then, were these ...

4. Friends and Relations: The Bass Trumpet
(Resources/Archived Articles)

...erent manufacturers' models. I have in front of me an insurance renewal notice which lists among the "specified articles of value" a Base Trumpet. Whether ...

5. 2010 Don Lusher Solo Trombone Competition
(Competitions/Competitions)

...bmit unedited recordings of your performances by 20th January 2010. The judges will then pick three finalists to compete live with the same pieces at an event later in 2010. The two required pie...

6. Large one or small one, sir?
(Resources/Current Articles)

...ore size of a brass instrument significantly affects its characteristics both as a player and a listener. It is generally accepted that large bore trombones in general requ...

7. A Lament for Sam Hughes
(Resources/Archived Articles)

...much shortened version of an article which appeared in edition No.87 of Planet, The Welsh Internationalist. To obtain a copy of Planet including the full article apply to Planet, PO Box 44, Aberyst...

8. Ray Premru: An Appreciation
(Resources/Archived Articles)

...quot;there's only one Ray Premru". I first became aware of this when I was sixteen and a regular listener to BBC Radio's Jazz Club broadcasts; I remember hearing some pretty stunning jazz impr...

9. The Alto Trombone in the Orchestra: 1800-2000
(Resources/Shifrin)

...ibrarian of the British Library, who sang to me in Czech over the telephone; Berlioz specialist, Dr Hugh MacDonald; Andrew Knowles of Alfred A. Kalmus/Universal Edition (UK) who move...

10. Sheila Tracy talks to Dick Nash
(Resources/Interviews)

... I'd put aside a little money with enough for a down payment on a house and someone gave me a list of some 15 to 29 dance band gigs around town. 'Oh wonderful, glad to hear you're in...

11. Brett Baker
(About/Biographies)

...principal trombone. Successes included wins at the Cheltenham and Bath Festivals and becoming a finalist at the British Open Solo Championships in 1990. In 1992 Brett began studies at Sa...

12. Friends and Relations: The Ophicleide
(Resources/Archived Articles)

...een adequately replaced. It remained in common use up to the end of the 19th century, and makers even listed it into the first couple of decades of this century. The bass keyed brass were particula...

13. God's Trombones
(Resources/Current Articles)

... in double fashion: first, the original melody (transposed a tone lower to make it easier for the vocalists) played by the four trombonists, then the chorale, set to the words of the penitential ps...

14. The Soprano Trombone Swindle
(Resources/Archived Articles)

... maxima = Contrabass Trombone"3 Kunitz does not cite a source for the contents of this list, but the terminology points to Michael Praetorius' Syntagma Musicum.4 This, of cou...

15. Chapter 1: From Beethoven to Schumann
(Resources/Shifrin)

... 'whose skill and qualifications were far below the best standard'.87 Indeed, in 1804, a journalist for the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung went as far as to suggest that the trombone...

16. The Sackbut Rebut
(Resources/Archived Articles)

...trombones into the concert orchestra was a hoax? On April 10, 2000 I submitted to the Ludwig Mail List an outline of my rebuttal to an article that appeared on the website of the British Tromb...

17. Principal Trombone, LSO (Part I)
(Resources/Interviews)

... a world-class orchestra has been graced by the loyalty and skill of these gifted instrumentalists and that The Trombonist should endeavour to record the unique achievement. With th...

18. The London Trombone Sound
(Resources/Reviews)

...uls of strawberries and cream, pathos and crazy jazz solos all wrapped up in 39 minutes of easy listening. This CD is the latest in a series produces by CALA Records which bega...

19. Part I: The Alto-Tenor-Bass Trombone Trio
(Resources/Shifrin)

...tliche Schriften über Generalbass, Harmonie-Lehre und Tonsetzkunst, Vienna, 1826, p. 201). Those listed by Albrechtsberger (and surely added by Seyfried or the publisher) are: Ahlsdorf, Belke...

20. BTS North of England Trombone Day 2009
(News/Latest News)

...ham Square Accommodation available at Hatfield College for £28.50 per night. Contact: Alison Lister, alison@sedgefield.demon.co.uk / 01740 622849 / 07860 818845 Please register your in...

21. Mozart's Requiem
(Resources/Archived Articles)

... in the Requiem? This interesting exchange between two of the illuminati of the Trombone-L Mailing List throws some light on the trombone parts and the Tuba Mirum. An Internet discussion on 1...

22. Are we doing Dvořák wrong?
(Resources/Archived Articles)

... a decade after Dvořák composed the New World Symphony - was a slide trombone "specialist", Josef Hilmer, engaged as a permanent instructor. According to Professor Milosl...

23. On a Pedestal
(Resources/Archived Articles)

...a in Southern Poland. Here, Alfred Flaszynski was born on 13th March 1919. At the age of fourteen he enlisted in the Polish Army as a boy musician. Whilst the army seemed to offer security, it was n...

24. Chapter 2: The Ascent of the Tenor Trombone
(Resources/Shifrin)

...largely to the efforts of Dieppo's former student Paul Delisse, 'non moins brilliant instrumentaliste',82 2:3:1 Rossini's Guillaume Tell Bate makes the dubious assertion that: ...

25. Fall and Rise of the Alto Trombone: 1830-2000
(Resources/Current Articles)

... alto clef. Numerous French texts on orchestration published between 1703 and 1909, are listed in Ref. 5. Many of them give range diagrams for alto, tenor and bass trombone....

26. Chapter 5: Dvořák
(Resources/Shifrin)

...fact that Dvořák did not include the C Minor Symphony, amongst his symphonies shown on the list pictured in Fig. 5.4, indicates that he apparently did not consider it a proper work of p...

27. BTS at Black Dyke Brass Band Arts Festival
(News/Latest News)

...rnoon concert with Black Dyke Band at 3.00pm. At 12.45pm, trombonists will have an opportunity to listen to a composers' collective involving the playing of new trombone works including pieces t...

28. Don Lusher Competition
(News/Latest News)

... “I loves you Porgy” by 20th January 2010. A panel of top judges will select three finalists who will be invited to play at a major BTS event in 2010. The competition is generous...

29. Coda: The Orchestral Alto Trombone in the Twentieth Century
(Resources/Shifrin)

...egina Busch of the Alban Berg Institute, Berg specifies four trombones, ATTB, in the general Besetzungsliste of the autograph.15 The Universal Edition score it is simply '4 Posaunen'. Moreove...

30. Appendix 3
(Resources/Shifrin)

...shooter and 'G', although I'm not sure anyone noticed the difference! It's nice, however, to play and listen to well developed, well-made modern trombones. CM Yes. PO No. AnP In so...