Borrowed fromItaliantrombone, fromtromba(“trumpet”) +-one(augmentative), literally“large trumpet”.The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.
Amusical instrument in thebrassfamily, having acylindricalbore, and usually asliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to thetenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
Jim plays thetrombone very well.
Thistrombone is very expensive.
2003, Don Michael Randel,The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page598:
Horns, trumpets, andtrombones, both soloistically and sectionally, became central to the orchestral concept... His highly subtle orchestration elevates woodwinds, more often scored soloistically than sectionally.
2015 August 1, Vanessa Thorpe, “Musicians launch campaign to save the bassoon as shortage threatens orchestra”, inThe Guardian[1]:
Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola,trombone and double bass.
2015, Kathryn Ramey,Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine, page357:
[…] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter ortromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.)[…]
2014, Henry K. Miller,The Essential Raymond Durgnat, page71:
He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening:[…]
