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Martin's Urbie Green model tenor trombone has instant response, great control and maximum projection. It is capable of playing triple pianissimo with excellent response throughout its entire range. It has a warm, intimate tone, but is still capable of great volume. It is highly flexible-the perfect horn for the discriminating jazz artist.
Specifications
Key: Bb
Bore: 12.70 mm (.500")
Bell: 8.0" diameter hand-hammered yellow brass with wire-reinforced rim
Tuning slide: Nickel silver inside slide with brass bow
Braces: Tubular nickel silver
Hand slide: Chrome-plated nickel silver with seamless inner slide and integral chamfered stocking. Nickel silver outside slide
Hand grip: Nickel silver
Waterkey: Nickel silver
Finish: Clear baked epoxy lacquer
Mouthpiece: 7C
Case: Deluxe wood shell
The following is a brief biography of Urbie Green as found on the Leblanc web site:
Martin trombonist
Urban (Urbie) Green, known as the "trombonist's trombonist," is one of the
true greats of jazz, among the elite of the world's trombone players. Urbie
Green has toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa and Frankie Carle and has
been cited numerous times in Down Beat magazine's annual critics awards.
Green has also established an extensive career as a free-lance trombonist
for recording artists such as Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Leonard Bernstein,
Louis Armstrong and others. He has approximately 30 albums under his own
name, appeared in the film version of The Benny Goodman Story and appears
at major jazz festivals. Lately his solo career has taken him around the
world three times in as many years. Urbie's collaboration with Martin design engineers has led to innovations in the comfort of the hand brace and slide, an improved water hole with a curved key that empties easily in one turn rather than several shakes, and a goose neck that is chrome-plated to prevent players' clothing from becoming marked by brass.
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trombone. The ad dates from 1976 and is copied with permission from
G. Leblanc Company, current manufacturers of the Martin trombone.
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