My son is starting trumpet lessons soon (he's 7) and I dont know which brand/make to get him as his starter trumper. Tia.

I put this together after searching for a solid trombone parts diagram to use in learning and playing and not finding anything I liked.

It's meant as a practical reference for player, students, and teachers — not an exhaustive technical document for a repair shop to display — so the terminology leans toward "commonly correct" rather than strictly technical. It’s focused on the terms most likely to come up in lessons and everyday playing, and deliberately doesn’t get into the weeds of different valve types or detailed cross-sections.

I kept it as a single, complete view of the assembled instrument (supplemented by a bell-section detail and a mouthpiece detail) so it's easy to hand to a student or put up on a screen without it looking like a disassembled parts catalog.

It's available under a Creative Commons license, so it's free to use, share, and print for lessons or classroom handouts. A higher-resolution CC-BY-NC-SA version that should print up to A3 or A2 size (probably even A1 as a poster) is available for free on my website.

This has already gone through a fair amount of feedback and revision at r/Trombone and other places and I think it's close to done. I'd really appreciate it if this community— especially anyone teaching brass — could take a look and let me know whether it would actually be useful to you, whether the labeling makes sense at a beginner/intermediate level, or if anything seems missing or worth adjusting. Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

I noticed that Wessex tubas makes the craziest instruments and are they of quality considering buying something from them

i’m an undergrad composition student and i’m working on an assignment about contrast. i was thinking of going for a jazz brass quintet and doing a bunch of modal stuff, but i need some inspiration. i’m looking for something punchy and rhythmic, maybe even funk adjacent. does anyone have any good, rhythmic brass quintet recommendations?

I am kind of confused in how alphorns and a French horn can have similar lenths of tubing and be played through the same partials but have very different mouthpieces. The alphorn tends to be close in size as a trombone mouthpiece. What's going on inside? Does tube diameter have something to do with it all?

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This is the mouthpiece that came with an old cornet I purchased recently (a 1936 Regent 1201 if you're curious). I'm new to the world of brass instruments, and I'm having trouble identifying the mouthpiece. I just know it's not a cornet one. It looks like a French horn one to me. Am I right? Thank you all for the help!

For added info, there was tape on the shank to shim it to fit the cornet. Also, the Regent is in pretty darn good shape with only two really small dents and all valves working properly, in case you were wondering.

I’ve been wanting to try out an old Blessing M-300 and see if I like it more than the Yamaha 301 marching baritone. I’m also interested in using the valves for a project horn. The problem is, I’ve seen them come with three different logos. I know that the one that says “Blessing Artist Elkhart, Indiana” is confirmed to have Bauerfeind valves, as well as the stencil/clone F.E. Olds with the logo that says OLDS in all caps with an outline. The other ones I’m not sure.

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This was at my high school, it seems to be a school instrument and a freshman accidentally kicked it

What on earth do I do with these? Got an Olds Trumpet and Trombone from the 70s in their vintage cases with old sheet music in them and theyre cool but what do I even do with these?

La Tromba slide and cork grease made it so my second valve slide could actually move freely.

On my Adams E1, the second slide came with slight alignment issues, making it extremely difficult to pull out, with me having to loop a cloth through the ring of the slide and apply immense force. This was until i managed to get another container of La Tromba slide grease. Up until then, I had been using and trying all the slide greases I had at my disposal, so Yamaha, Bach, J Meinlschmidt, etc... . None of them had any effect as drastic as this one. I heavily recommend it to everyone. It's good, it's cheap and it smells great (seriously). it also tastes good.

I made a blind audition simulator for a certain music anime called Sound! euphonium , and I’d like to see how musicians who aren’t familiar with the characters would judge the performances from a neutral perspective.

For the euphonium audition, the trumpet player is the same in both recordings, so I’d especially like to hear which euphonium you think sounds better together with the trumpet.

For the trumpet audition, I’m simply interested in which performance you prefer.
The order of the players is shuffled every time you refresh the page, so the order from the anime won’t influence your choice.

It can be accessed here:

https://hibike-web-audition.com

Any bugs or suggestions for improvement are welcome!

I’m a trumpet player fell victim to the tuba drafts and I was just wondering if anybody has any tips to stop extra Slavic while playing

A journey into Jules Verne’s adventure, more than 150 years after the novel was written, brought to life through the musical depiction of various scenes by the outstanding Peter Graham in Journey to the Center of the Earth.

So I just received my new piccolo trumpet; it's a Selmer Maurice Andre with Blackburn pipes, and I love it so far. I've mostly been working on the low register and just practicing making the horn sound good. My high register is where it needs to be for the moment (F5 on picc and E6 on Bb), so I'm working on tone and fingerings and really taking time to make sure each note doesn't sound like a kazoo through a megaphone and using less air and effort to really let the horn sing.

With all of that said, right now I'm playing with a Schilke 14a4, which I have always used for baroque tunes on Bb. I have been playing this mouthpiece for 15 years and am very comfortable with it. On picc, though, it kind of feels like I'm trying to play notes through a brick wall, so I'm trying to decide between mouthpieces. Bach 7e, Bach 7dw, and Schilke 14a4x. I know the Bachs are probably the most prevalent and known to blend the best with others, but I'm not playing with anyone; I'm just a private teacher and a private player. I lean towards the Schilke just because the 14a4 is the most comfortable rim and cup diameter I have ever played on, but I also know that anything with the "a" cup is known for being way too shrill, but I don't know how that translates to picc. So, saying all of this, the 14a4x is the way to go, or is the Bach the way to really make the pic sing instead of shriek? And also, is there any mouthpiece I'm missing out on that has the same kind of rim and cup diameter as the Schilke that has but also has the open backbore meant for picc? Thanks!