Wooden Trombone Professional Demonstration.wmv

I was invited to be a guest speaker at a quarterly meeting of the New England Woodcarvers Association so I invited Professional Trombonist and Director of the Community School of the Arts, Topher Logan to come to the Middlesex Community College and play the only wooden trombone in the world. Topher brought a friend with him who is also a Trombonist and they played a duet for the audience. I can't begin to describe how awesome the feeling was to have built this, then hear a professional play it so well.

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Music

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• Trombone
• Topher Logan
• Wooden
• Wood
• Instrument
• Carving

[ToadCharmer]

How Ironic ... he is playing "Oh Christmas Tree" ... with a Tree.

[lllCADElll]

"Damn, i got a splinter!" 

[Nuclear61]

a WOODWIND!!!

[AlexAraizaIsMe]

Are you sure they are professionals?

[MandyandIzzy411]

whats up with the breathing? I play the trombone and I dont do that at all they sound like someone just fell and they are like, gasp!

[Ethernallium]

@ToadCharmer I laught hard thanks x)

[klinkerkk]

First piecee was played at 14:00 o' clock. hehe.

[BABarracus6]

sounds muddy 

[itspoohbear4]

is the mouthpiece still metal??

[sesc79]

@Sakanakao Fair enough! It would be awesome if such a thing had existed, it just seems a bit too good to be true... so if you ever do find more evidence, please let me know! ^^

[Sakanakao]

@sesc79 You know, after trying to look it up I am beginning to doubt my memory. I was pretty positive that I saw a wooden sackbut in my school's collection of early instruments (Queen's University, Canada) but this was several years ago; it's possible my brain was warped my recollection of it.

[sesc79]

@Sakanakao I still maintain that THE sackbut was made of metal and I have a hard time believing that more than possibly the odd experimental one (like this) were wooden. I've been playing early music wind (recorder, cornett, sackbut, dulcian) for the better part of 25 years, often together with very knowledgeable and 'nerdy' folks, and never has anyone even suggested such a thing. Would love to learn more. What & where were those you saw - originals? copies? in a museum?