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▪ I. trombone, n.|ˈtrɒmbəʊn, trɒmˈbəʊn|
[ad. It. trombone ‘a bace or great sackbut, a great trump’ (Florio, 1598), also, a blunderbuss, augmentative of tromba trumpet. Cf. F. trombon (16th c. in Godef.).]
1. Mus.
a. A large loud-toned brass instrument of the trumpet kind, consisting of a long tube bent twice upon itself, and ending in a bell mouth; the U-shaped bend nearer the mouth-piece is of double telescoping tubes, sliding upon one another, so that the length of the sounding tube may be adjusted to produce the desired note.
It is also made with valves and pistons instead of the slide (valve-trombone).
1724Short Explic. For. Wds. Mus. Bks., Trombone, a very Large or Bass Trumpet, though more properly a Sackbut. 1813Examiner 10 May 303/2 Every violin, bassoon, and trombone. 1856Mrs. C. Clarke tr. Berlioz' Instrument. 151 There are four kinds of trombones, each of which bears the name of the human voice to which it bears the nearest resemblance in quality of tone and compass. 1881Broadhouse Mus. Acoustics 234 The Trumpet..and the Trombone its natural bass. 1889W. H. Stone in Grove Dict. Mus. IV. 176 In a.d. 1520 there was a well-known Posaunenmacher named Hans Menschel, who made slide Trombones as good as, or perhaps better, than those of the present time. 1892Symonds Life Michel Angelo (1899) II. xi. 65 A sense-deafening solo on a trombone.
attrib.1886Academy 16 Oct. 267/1 Why..are Handel's trombone parts persistently ignored? 1893B. Abbotsford But vii. 40 The ‘it’ [man] with the trombone voice. 1906P. Kropotkin Mem. Revolutionist (1908) I. viii. 47 Behind each one of us a violinist or a trombone player stands. 1908Westm. Gaz. 23 July 4/2 It does not concern them whether the [motor-engine] cylinders are as big as beer-barrels, or the stroke as elongated as a trombone-slide.
b. One who plays this instrument.
1848Dickens Dombey xxxi, An artful trombone lurks and dodges round the corner.
c. A reed-stop in the organ of similar tone.
1837Stranger's Guide York (ed. 6) 78 Trombone..Wood open diapason.
‖2. |tromˈbone|, pl. tromboni |-ni|. = blunderbuss 1.
1754Richardson Grandison (ed. 7) III. 258, I beat down his Trombone, a kind of Blunderbuss, just as he presented it at me. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxi, When we came up, we fired our tromboni, but missed. 1797― Italian xxi, He fired his trombone in the air, when every rock reverberated the sound. 1843Borrow Bible in Spain xxxiii, He then discharged his trombone just over my head.
3. A green or yellow pear-shaped pumpkin belonging to the Australian variety of this name.
1946Jrnl. Agric. (S. Austral.) Jan. 275 The trombone is not such a good cropper unless it can be watered in hot weather. 1969Ibid. Jan. 208 By far the most popular pumpkin variety in South Australia is the Trombone. It is typically pear-shaped with a curved neck. 1978Guardian 10 Nov. 21/8 According to one reader, a trombone is a non-spherical pumpkin much used in chutneys and pickles. Another, equally well versed in Australian horticulture, tells me that it is a long-necked marrow with a bulbous end (hence the name) which is cooked and treated exactly like vegetable marrow.
Hence trombonist = 1 b; trombony a. colloq., pertaining to or characterized by the trombone.
1891Cent. Dict., *Trombonist. 1897Weekly Sun 19 Sept. 3/4 A trombonist in our tontine band. 1908Times 8 July 7/2 Herr Steidl..showed us how a trombonist and a clarinetist ought to be educated.
1899A. Layard Musical Bogeys 44 The *Trombony Bogey is terribly thin. 1913Daily News 6 Sept. 6 The Prelude to Act III of ‘Lohengrin’..is a tromboney piece of music.
▪ II. trombone, v.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To move to and fro as in playing the trombone (humorous). rare
1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight vi. 70 The age..when we commence to ‘trombone our newspaper’ in search of the receding near point of distinct vision. 1893W. H. Hudson Idle Days Patagonia xi, The redskin..is never observed to trombone his newspaper.
2. intr. To play the trombone; also transf., to make a sound like a trombone. So tromˈboning vbl. n.
1864J. A. Grant Walk across Africa ix. 196 When standing here, the hoarse tromboning of the hippopotamus, wishing to come out to graze, echoed from out these rushes. 1866J. Macgregor Thousand Miles in Rob Roy Canoe (ed. 2) iii. 48 Crowds of gaping peasants..jostled against bands drumming and tromboning.., and marching in a somewhat ricketty manner over the undoubtedly rough pavement. 1888H. Drummond Tropical Africa i. 18 The hippopotami..tromboning at us within pistol-shot kept us awake. 1958R. Harris in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz iii. 44 There was one man..who created a legend of tail-gate tromboning—the one and only Kid Ory. 1960New Oxf. Hist. Music III. xii. 426 ‘Die pusauner pusaunoten über einnander mit dreyen stymmen, als man sunst gewonlichen singet’ (‘the trombonists tromboned together in three parts as one is otherwise accustomed to sing’). 1967Listener 26 Jan. 144/3 A contentious fugal start and imperious tromboning herald the story-telling with a piquant sense of expectation. |