Always on the lookout for obscure or oppressed instruments, here seems to be another one with an identity crisis – I suspect it was originally listed on ebay (click here) as a flugelhorn – seems reasonable – but a Q&A on the listing states emphatically “This is a flugaBONE, not a flugelHORN, this is a marching trombone“

So if marching bands don’t like trombones with slides, what happened to the good ole  valve trombone like the one Bob Brookmeyer used to play with Gerry Mulligan – is this really the modern replacement of the valve trombone ?  Only in America could this exist, I suppose we should be grateful that the bell points to the front…

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