Trombone questions, answered by our band repair team. Everything comes back to the slide, which is precision-made and unforgiving of a knock. A trombone has two slides and they take different products — the hand slide wants cream and water, the tuning slide wants grease, and confusing them is the most common trombone-care mistake. Carrying it vertically prevents most of the damage we repair.
Yes, two ways. Yamaha is one of the manufacturers in our B Line, along with Jupiter, Selmer, Buffet and Gemeinhardt. We also rent a Premium Yamaha Line on five instruments, in the specific models school programs most often specify: the…
It depends on the line. A Line instruments are brand new, and they arrive with everything new, mouthpiece included. B Line and C Line instruments have been played before. Each of those is stripped down and restored on our bench,…
That is a reasonable instinct, and we would rather a teacher raised it than said nothing. Instruments do turn up in school music rooms that arrived from an online seller and cannot be played properly, and a teacher who has…
Bring it to us or to the band director. A purpose-made tool called a mouthpiece puller removes a stuck mouthpiece in under a minute without leaving a mark, most band rooms and every competent shop have one, and it is…
A trombone has two slides and they are not the same thing. The hand slide, the long one the player moves, wants slide cream or oil plus a light mist of water, never thick grease. The tuning slide, the short…
Almost certainly, yes. Beginning trombonists live in the first three positions, which even short arms reach, and band directors write for exactly that while children grow into the rest. The bigger question is overall size: whether your child can comfortably…
Usually yes, but the honest answer is that it depends on the child, because every mouth is different and so are the braces. Most students play straight through, with orthodontic wax on the brackets and a few weeks of patience,…