1815: A Prussian composer reports a new contrivance. A local chamber musician has modified his brass concert horn, adding valves that allow him to play all the notes in the chromatic scale deftly and ...

MASON CITY — Paul Amundson brought a 100-year-old valve trombone that his grandfather played to his first rehearsal with the New Horizons Band this week at The Music Man Square. The Frost, Minn., ...

When he was 11, the trombonist Bob Brookmeyer was taken by his father to see the Count Basie Orchestra performing at the Tower Theater, Kansas City. It was, he recalled, "the first major body thrill I ...

Priority order, these don't need to be purchased all at once. As you become more advanced as a player, the literature may require more specialized mutes. Straight - A metal (aluminum) straight mute is ...