Which instrument is a precursor to the trombone?

Answer 1

The instrument that preceded the Trombone in history is actually the Trumpet. However, it's not the trumpet you see today.

Trumpets made from animal horns, shells, and hollow bones date way back to 3000 BC. Trumpets were found in King Tut's tomb. The Romans and Greeks used trumpets.

By the early 15th century, innoators found that they could cut a straight trumpet in two and then, by fitting the two sections together in a telescoping fashion, create a horn that could change its fundamental pitch. The slide trumpet was born.

By the mid 15th century, we find the now familiar curved parallel-tube that became the trombone.

Answer 2

Unlike many instruments, which evolved a little at a time, the Saxophone was an independent invention of Adolph Sax. He had experience as a flute and Clarinet player and had developed the Bass Clarinet into the form we use today, so in some ways those were predecessor instruments, but Sax was aiming for several specific things that were different. Among other things, he wanted a stronger sound than other woodwinds (especially in the lower voices) and an instrument that overblows at the octave (unlike the clarinet).

He borrowed the brass construction from the true brass instruments, the mouthpiece of a clarinet and the fingering of an oboe to create a new and different instrument.

Answer 3

The helicon was the predecessor of the sousaphone.

Answer 4

The trombone's ancestor was called the sackbut.

Answer 5

The Sousaphone is a marching version of the tuba.

Answer 6

Helicons, the predecessor of the sousaphone are related to the sousaphone, and both instruments are a part of the tuba family.

Answer 7

Tuba! Tuba! Tuba! Tuba!