Most trombones use a slide to change pitch, but there is a type of trombone that uses valves

like a trumpet.

It's called a valve trombone.

Valve trombones are cool and kind of odd looking, like a faster trombone with a teeny tiny

slide or a trumpet with a really big nose.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music.

I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton, and as always, and so glad that you've joined me to talk

about music played by slide trombones, music played by valve trombones, and sometimes music

that sadly has no trombones at all.

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On this episode, we're digging into the Strong Songs mailbag, and I've got a whole bunch

of your musical questions to try to answer.

We've got topics from the nitty gritty, to the practical, to the philosophical, and everything

in between.

Plus a little bit of Strong Songs behind the scenes, so let's grab our letter opener, put

on some reading glasses, and do this thing.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture, so goes the famous quote often attributed

to kind of a lot of different people, and then the service of a lot of different points

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