Buying a Trombone

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Buying a Trombone

Post by Pikachokes » Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:38 am

Hello everyone! I have been playing for my 5th year now and was wondering about Trombones. i have been looking into buying a new professional trombone for college. I am thinking it mostly for jazz and concert but still not sure which of the two. If anything mostly concert but i am not sure.

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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by Brad » Mon Aug 29, 2011 1:43 pm

Price range? A high quality professional Trombone will set you back a couple of thousand. So, we need to know more about what your looking for. Is an F attachment important? What make/model horn do you play now? Glad to help with more information.
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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by Chaporch » Thu Sep 01, 2011 11:40 am

check out these

http://www.pbone.co.uk/


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Post by Hostrauser » Thu Sep 01, 2011 3:14 pm

Chaporch wrote:check out these

http://www.pbone.co.uk/


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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by Brad » Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:56 am

:flush: Wow.....just, wow. .500 bore and "lighter than any brass trombone" I'm just speachless.
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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by ovhs_sousaman » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:53 pm

Fiberglass... ick.

I play a brass sousaphone. I once had to play a fiberglass one. No comparison whatsoever.
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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by Bandmaster » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:23 pm

Here's a quote from a guy on another forum that got one of these intruments last week:
Both inner slide tubes fell off after about 2 minutes....
So it looks like buyer be ware....
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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by Hostrauser » Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:20 pm

You buy a plastic trombone you get what you deserve.

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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by malletphreak » Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:43 pm

I have a friend who owns one - and it actually does not sound that bad!
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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by Hostrauser » Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:55 pm

malletphreak wrote:I have a friend who owns one - and it actually does not sound that bad!
...says the percussionist. ;)

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Kidding, sheesh. :wav:

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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by malletphreak » Sat Oct 01, 2011 9:01 pm

Hostrauser wrote:
malletphreak wrote:I have a friend who owns one - and it actually does not sound that bad!
...says the percussionist. ;)

:duck:

Kidding, sheesh. :wav:

said friend was a low brass major soooo :-p NYAH!
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Re: Buying a Trombone

Post by malletphreak » Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:00 am

http://youtu.be/141E9kYdkL8 <-- not shabby... I think I want one now hehe...

I have some other friends who were joking about making decals to custom for kids hehe
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