Trombone Shorty

Whenever we can, we try to talk to students. If I can, I'll invite kids from a school to a sound check and take questions from them. I want to show them it's cool to play the trombone. Kids are influenced by what's accessible to them. It's hard for kids to be introduced to music other than what they see on TV and video.

American Musician

Compay Segundo

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

Cuban Musician

John McDonnell

My ambition is to learn to play the trombone. My wife pulls my leg about it. I'll find time, my neighbours might not appreciate it but I'm going to try.

British Politician

Ray Manzarek

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Sam Heughan

I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.

Scottish Actor

Mannie Fresh

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

Louis Armstrong

The first time I heard Jack Teagarden on the trombone, I had goose pimples all over.

Johann Johannsson

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

Icelander Composer

Dolph Lundgren

I used to play drums when I was a kid, play the trombone.

Swedish Actor

Ray Conniff

When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.

The word 'trombone' is mostly used in a musical setting, particularly involving brass bands and orchestras.

Musical Context

In jazz, the trombone is iconic and carries a cool, improvised feel when mentioned.

Cultural Usage

Understanding that a trombone has a slide can help one visualize the instrument and its unique sound.

Physical Description

This 'trombone' definition is specific to technical contexts, involving machinery and not music.

Technical Domain

In machinery, a 'trombone' usually refers to a component that moves back and forth to function.

Movement Characteristic

Trombone mechanisms are often used to control fluid flow in hydraulic systems.

Fluid Control

 And what makes the trombone so jazzy? The answer lies not in the brass these instruments are made of, but in the journey air takes from the musician's lungs to the instrument's bell. Like any sound, music consists of vibrations traveling through air.

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 It Never look at the trombones -- it only encourages them. So, the whole idea is really to let it happen by itself. Do not interfere.