Trombone

Trombone [aug. of tromba] (Fr., It.: trombone; Ger.: Posaune), 1. brass wind instr. with cylindrical bore, its characteristic feature being a telescopic slide, played with a cup mouthpiece slightly larger than that of a trumpet. The trombone started life as an improvement of the trumpet, perhaps at the court of Burgundy at the turn of the 14th/15th c. Its names “trombone” and “Posaune” bear witness to its ancestry, the latter name being derived from *buisine. The trumpet of that time was…