page_title: Types of trombone
section_title: Bass trombones in G, F, E♭
hierarchical_section_title: Types of trombone / In order of pitch / Bass trombone / Bass trombones in G, F, E♭
caption_attribution_description: English: Bass trombone in G, silver plated, "Imperial" model by Boosey and Hawkes, London.
context_page_description: There are many different types of trombone. The most frequently encountered trombones today are the tenor and bass, though as with other Renaissance instruments such as the recorder, the trombone has been built in every size from piccolo to contrabass.
context_section_description: Older, now obsolete versions of the bass trombone were of smaller bore than the modern bass trombones described above. They were usually pitched in G, F, or E♭, and had a longer slide with a handle attached to the outer slide stay to allow for full extension of the slide. They were mainly used in Europe and the British Empire. They were sometimes called Terzposaune, Quartposaune, and Quintposaune (from the German name for the intervals third, fourth, and fifth lower than B♭), though sometimes Quartposaune was used generally to refer to any of these.
  The oldest of these instruments were the E, D and C bass trombones, which were used in Europe during the Renaissance and early Baroque periods; by the 18th century the F and E♭ bass trombones were used in Germany, Austria and Sweden and the E♭ bass trombone in France, though these fell out of favour in the early nineteenth century and began to be replaced by the tenor trombone, later (after 1840) the tenorbass trombone with F rotary valve attachment.
  The bass trombone in G (the orchestral version was in G equipped with a rotary valve attachment actuating D or C, extending the range to A₁ or A♭₁) enjoyed a period of extended popularity in France during the second half of the nineteenth century, and in Great Britain and the British Empire from approximately 1850 to the 1950s, though it lingered on in some parts of Britain until the 1970s and 1980s and is still occasionally to be seen there in brass bands and period instrument orchestras.
  The range of the E♭ bass trombone is A₁ to B♭₄, that of the F bass trombone is B₁ to C₅ and that of the G bass trombone is D♭₂, or A₁ or A♭₁ with a D or C valve attachment (the C attachment being used expressly for playing parts written for the contrabass trombone), to D₅.
caption: Bass trombone in G with D valve
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