Crossword-Solution: TROMBONE 8 letters, 30 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Trombone n. A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought
by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts,
bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent
double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by
change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass of the
instrument (which may be bass or tenor or alto or even, in rare
instances, soprano) is commanded. It is the only member of the family
of wind instruments whose scale, both diatonic and chromatic, is
complete without the aid of keys or pistons, and which can slide from
note to note as smoothly as the human voice or a violin. Softly blown,
it has a rich and mellow sound, which becomes harsh and blatant when
the tones are forced; used with discretion, its effect is often solemn
and majestic.
Trombone n. The common European bittern.

We have 30 clues for the answer “TROMBONE”

Clue Answers
Brass instrument that can play glissandi 1 answer
Wind with a slide 1 answer
Tuba's kin 1 answer
Tommy Dorsey.s instrument 1 answer
Tommy Dorsey's companion 1 answer
Sliding instrument 1 answer
Slide instrument 1 answer
Ska band instrument 1 answer
One of a musical "76" 1 answer
One of Willson's seventy-six 1 answer
One of Willson's 76 1 answer
One of 76 in a "Music Man" song 1 answer
Long horn? 1 answer
Jack Teagarden played it 1 answer
Glenn Miller's instrument 2 answers
Large brass instrument 2 answers
Trumpet relative 2 answers
Dixieland instrument 2 answers
sackbut 4 answers
Brass member 4 answers
Marching-band instrument 8 answers
ANY WIND INSTRUMENT OTHER THAN THE BRASS INSTRUMENTS 10 answers
A BRASS INSTRUMENT WITHOUT VALVES 10 answers
BRASS instrument 11 answers
Big brass 14 answers
Band instrument. 22 answers
Wind instrument? 30 answers
Horn 38 answers
Instrument 65 answers
musical instrument 68 answers
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Conwell’s scheme of church service; for there may be a piano, and there may even be a trombone, and there is a great organ to help the voices, and at times there are chiming bells.
Acres of Diamonds Russell H. Conwell 2008
The Professor then read—with that slightly sing-song cadence which is observed to be common in poets reading their own verses—the following stanzas; holding them at a focal distance of about two feet and a half, with an occasional movement back or forward for better adjustment, the appearance of which has been likened by some impertinent young folks to that of the act of playing on the trombone.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 2013
That night I fled his Court, and, assuming the disguise of a Second Trombone, I joined the band in which you found me when I had the happiness of seeing you! (Approaching her.) YUM.
The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan 2009
The first, are practising in a back settlement near Battlebridge; the second, put themselves in communication, through their chief, with Mr Towlinson, to whom they offer terms to be bought off; and the third, in the person of an artful trombone, lurks and dodges round the corner, waiting for some traitor tradesman to reveal the place and hour of breakfast, for a bribe.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1997
What vent was a flute for the passions swelling up within his breast? A trombone would have been a world too mild.
Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 2006

Quotes with TROMBONE (3)

I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on TV as a kid. Free-living Asian primates possess a characteristic I found shocking and confusing the first time I saw it: self-respect. If you make the mistake of holding the gaze of a street monkey in India, Nepal, or Malaysia, you’ll find you’re facing a belligerently intelligent creature whose expression says, with a Robert DeNiro…
Christopher Ryan Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it's as if the audience--dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing--is part of the band. They are two parts of the same thing. The dancers interpret, or it might be better to say literally embody, the sounds of the band, answering the instruments. Since everyone is listening to different parts of the music--she to the trumpet melody, he to t…
Tom Piazza Why New Orleans Matters
The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.
Paul Fleischman Whirligig
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 27 times in crossword archives (1968–2023).