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Trombones bleat, a tuba bellows, drums are the heart.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

Conductor in rehearsal: “Violins, you’re scratchy and flat! Trombones — don’t bray like mating zebras! Kettledrums, what extraordinarily horrendous noise! Xylophone: unbelievably grotesque — just quit! Otherwise — perfect.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

Trombones marched down the aisles, calling out the dead before Ustvolskaya’s unleashing of heaven’s fury.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2018

According to Bowker, Blowfly will release one final album, 77 Rusty Trombones, which is out in February.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2016

Trombones generally utter single chords, or slow successions of chords, adding solemnity to the sound, and crowning a climax.

From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by Hight, George Ainslie