32 etudes for trombone - Sigmund Hering

Yesterday I bought this book at a local music store in Bruges called Rombeaux. They have a large selection of sheet music for piano, guitar and violin, but not for trombone. I even had to ask the lady at the counter where the study books for trombone where located because of the shop renovation they made.

The book can be bought online at sheetmusicplus.com. A first peek at the content learns that this book contains progressive studies for an low-intermediate level trombonist (which I am). This is my second study book and I hope I'll be able to give a good review of it in due time.

Trombone icons

For some nice trombone icons:

http://www.iconator.com/search.php?query=trombone&stype=icons&icat=0&vcat=0&wcat=0&lcat=0&acat=0

http://www.iconarchive.com/show/wind-instruments-icons-by-iconshock/Trombone-icon.html

Lego trombone

Myself being a fairly large Lego fanatic in childhood years, I recently wondered if there existed trombones in the Lego world. Standard: no, but some fanatics make their own. Cool!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrispockster/2875875269/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41245877@N06/3978967575/

Trombone Hero

Nice parody on the famous console game guitar hero. T-shirts are available on: http://www.redbubble.com/people/crazytees/t-shirts/3741035-2-trombone-hero

I don't think that Activision will bring out a trombone controller on the market very soon, maybe when the popularity of trombones exceeds the guitar frenzy. Let's all hope that it will come to that :-)

Voodoo trombone quartet

I stumbled on these cool flash animations when surfing on the web and they all have a tune from the voodoo trombone quartet to accompany them. The voodoo trombone quartet started as a cool hobby thing in 2004, but it soon came so popular that the band was able to bring out a CD. You can join their mailing list to keep up to date!

For more about the quarter: http://www.voodootrombonequartet.com/

For more animations: http://eclectech.co.uk/animation-search.php?t79=1

Director shot

Stigma, stigma, stigma ... After the myth of the slide-shooting-firecracker-trombone, we have this. From my experiences trombone players are very pacifistic and they wouldn't hurt a fly. But I must say that it looks great fun for the audience and brings in some nice variation to a concert.

Clipart (3)

Another 2 drawings that can be used as clipart, this time of trombonists. The first is more a cartoon figure, the second a kind of logo.