Real recorded trombone notes on a piano keyboard: click, touch or type, and the trombone answers. The trombone is the only brass instrument that can glide continuously from one note to another. Free, nothing to install, with note names, your computer keyboard and a metronome.
Recorded notes, the trombone's own range, and the keyboard you already know.
Every key plays a recording of a real trombone: 17 notes from A#1 to F4, each key pitched from the nearest one. The trombone is brass instrument with a slide: the lips buzz into a cup mouthpiece and a telescopic slide lengthens the tube through seven positions, which also lets the player glide smoothly between notes.
The keyboard covers A#1 to C5, where the recordings sound natural; a real trombone plays E2 to about F5 (tenor trombone). Use the octave arrows to move, and More keys on a wide screen.
Play long notes in the lower half of the keyboard and connect them, as a trombone section holds a chord under a melody. The note sounds as long as you hold the key, like a bow or a breath.
Famous trombone music: Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 (finale); Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Festival Overture; Big band and New Orleans jazz. Pick out a melody by ear on the keyboard above.
Click or touch a key. The first note starts the sound; the trombone recordings for the visible keys load in the background.
A S D F G H J K L play the white keys, W E T Y U O P the black ones (Q and Z on AZERTY). Z and X move an octave (W and X on AZERTY).
Set Labels to C D E or Do Ré Mi to see every note name, or to Keys to see your own keyboard letters.
Turn on the metronome and play along. Then try the same melody on the trumpet or the piano.
| Type | Sampled trombone, playable on this page, free |
|---|---|
| Family | Brass - brass instrument with a slide |
| Samples | 17 recorded notes, A#1 to F4 |
| Range here | A#1 to C5 |
| Real range | E2 to about F5 (tenor trombone) |
| Notation | Bass clef (tenor clef up high) |
| Controls | Labels, octave arrows, More keys and a metronome |
| Computer keyboard | Ableton layout by key position - QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ |
| Credits | Trombone samples from tonejs-instruments by Nicholas Brosowsky, CC BY 3.0 - see credits |
| Requirements | Any modern browser with Web Audio - Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari |
Most online instruments are a synthesiser with a picture on top. This one plays recordings of a real trombone, so the attack, the tone and the decay are the instrument's own. The trombone is the only brass instrument that can glide continuously from one note to another.
The trombone has barely changed since the 15th century, when it was called the sackbut. Beethoven brought it into the symphony in the finale of his Fifth.
A real trombone is written in bass clef (tenor clef up high). The keyboard here plays the sounding notes, so a melody you find by ear is the melody you hear. To go further, the free sheet music and chord pages work with any instrument you can read music on.
Yes. Every key plays a recording of a real trombone - 17 notes from A#1 to F4 - pitched to the nearest key. The recordings come from the tonejs-instruments library, under a Creative Commons licence.
Yes. The middle row of letters plays the white keys and the row above it the black keys, by key position, so it works the same on QWERTY, AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards. Set Labels to Keys to see the letters on the keys.
A trombone plays E2 to about F5 (tenor trombone). On this page the keyboard goes from A#1 to C5, where the recordings sound natural.
Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 (finale); Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Festival Overture; Big band and New Orleans jazz.
Yes, free with no account and nothing to install. It runs in any modern browser, on a computer, a tablet or a phone.
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