Trombone vs Euphonium - What's the difference?
trombone | euphonium |
A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B?? (contra B?).
The common European bittern.
(musical instruments) A valved brass instrument, a sax horn, the tenor of the tuba family of instruments, having the appearance very similar to that of a tuba. It is similar to and often used instead of a "Baritone" horn. (A true Baritone has a cylindrical tubing, while the Euphonium tubing is conical, though they both cover the same range of tones. This relationship is also between the Trumpet [cylindrical] and Cornet [conical] respectively.)
As nouns the difference between trombone and euphonium
is that trombone is trombone while euphonium is (musical instruments) a valved brass instrument, a sax horn, the tenor of the tuba family of instruments, having the appearance very similar to that of a tuba it is similar to and often used instead of a "baritone" horn (a true baritone has a cylindrical tubing, while the euphonium tubing is conical, though they both cover the same range of tones this relationship is also between the trumpet [cylindrical] and cornet [conical] respectively).trombone
English
(wikipedia trombone)Noun
(en noun)- Jim plays the trombone very well.
- This trombone is very expensive.