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A saxophonist has just asked me: why are all your trombones made by companies with four letter names?

Conn
King
Rath
Olds
Bach

He's not wrong!

Shires, Getzen, Courtois, Eastman, Edwards, Yamaha

C.G. Conn, Edwards...

I did forget about the off-brand trombones I have, though:

FART, POOP, DOOK, LAVA, DUMP


*Edit- changed "DUMB" to "DUMP"

Does your friend play a Yanagisawa? Aka Yani? A Yamaha, aka Yamy or a Selmer, aka overpriced underperformer?

LARK comes to mind...

York
Roth

From Adams and Buescher to Yamaha and Y-Fort… there are a lot of trombone brands out there that aren’t four-letter words.

I know of a few trombones that have been called four-letter words, and quite a few trombonists who have used four-letter words, and even a few trombonists who have been called four-letter words. I don’t know of any trombone brands that are called those kinds of four-letter words.

Kbiggs wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 9:26 am I don’t know of any trombone brands that are called those kinds of four-letter words.

Sounds like a market opportunity!

There’s a small cluster of & also:

K&H
B&S
M&W
B&H (ok, defunct, I know)

It appears all trombone brands contain a number of letters.

Which trombone brand would be most difficult to pronounce?

I'd go with Lätszch followed by Y-Fort.

Digidog wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 4:14 am Which trombone brand would be most difficult to pronounce?

I'd go with Lätszch followed by Y-Fort.

Buescher (pronounced "Bisher")

Unless you're familiar with the language, anything with an unlaut can be challenging.

Digidog wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 4:14 am Which trombone brand would be most difficult to pronounce?

JohnL wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 9:48 am Unless you're familiar with the language, anything with an unlaut can be challenging.

Kühnl & Hoyer. In addition to the unlaut, I think in English one might want to pronounce the “Y” with a “j” sound instead of the “y” which I think is more correct for Kühnl & Hoyer.