Inventory | Ethnography | Trombone
- Common name
- Trombone
- Type
- Musical instrument
- Audio
- Material
- brass
Description
Wind instrument employed in Grandola band performances. Pitch is regulated by the handling of three pistons that change the length of the reed.
Use
- Areas of use
- liturgical and ritual activities
- Specific use
- band
- Craft
- band musician
Preserved specimen
an instrument similar to a trumpet but larger, consisting of a cylindrical tube bent in two parallels, which gradually widens into a cone or pavilion shape; it features special mechanics, whereby the sounds are varied by the handling of three pistons that allow the length of the barrel to be changed.
Cataloging
- SIRBeC
- 7s020-00359
