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Question: Im looking to buy a Soprano Trombone/Slide Trumpet and I'm wondering what the best brand is!?
I remember seeing a while ago a soprano trombone/slide trumpet with an F Trigger, can anyone confirm that!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Miraphone makes a high quality Soprano Trombone!. It's not inexpensive, but there is a price on quality!. You can look at it here:
http://www!.music123!.com/Miraphone-63-Bb-!.!.!.
or
http://www!.wwbw!.com/Search!.list!?N=61&Ntt!.!.!.

Jupiter also makes a Soprano Trombone/Slide Trumpet for a lot less!. http://www!.wwbw!.com/Jupiter-Slide-Trumpe!.!.!.

Holton made a Slide Trumpet for Maynard Ferguson that had both valves and a slide that was capable of playing all 7 positions!. It was called the "Firebird"!. Like the Holton "Superbone", The valves were played with the left hand, and the slide was played with the right hand!. Here's an article about the "Firebird":
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Firebird_(t!.!.!.

As for a Soprano Trombone with an F-attachment, I'm not aware of any!.

Here's a little more information about Soprano Trombones/Slide Trumpets, from Wikipedia!.:

The soprano trombone is usually pitched in B flat an octave above the tenor and built with a bore size of between 0!.450" and 0!.470" and a trumpet-sized bell!. It appears to have been created in the late 17th century, from which the earliest surviving examples date!. It was used in German-speaking countries to play the treble part in chorales, and this tradition survives in the Moravian trombone choir at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania!. During the 20th century some manufacturers made soprano trombones as doubling instruments for jazz cornet players, dubbing them slide cornets, or as a novelty, but the instrument has never been widely used or enjoyed much popularity!. It rather lacks its own character and historically had little validity as it was easily replaced by the cornet or woodwind instruments and the short shifts make it difficult to play in tune!. Soprano trombone slides being so short, there are often only six positions on the slide rather than seven!. The soprano trombone is usually played by a trumpeter owing to the high pitch of the instrument and similar required embouchure!.
The range of the B flat soprano trombone is E3 to C6, though it is not usually written higher than B flat5!.

I hope that you buy one, and have fun with it!

Best of luck to you!Www@QuestionHome@Com