forming sound waves. To make different notes the amount of air vibrating inside the instrument has to be changed. On a trombone, a part called the slide makes the tube of air that vibrates longer ...

The trombone ranks among a handful of instruments that sound most like the human voice—it represents the adults in “Peanuts,” after all. Cartoons aside, the trombone’s tenor range sits in a natural ...

John Neurohr first encountered the trombone because of his father, John H. Neurohr, who was a professional musician and trombonist in the Ohio River Valley of West Virginia. One of Neurohr’s family ...