I was browsing through ebay and saw this strange looking brass instrument. It says it's a "trumpet trombone" in the item description. I thought, "okay, so it's a valve trombone". That's what it probably is, except it appears to have rotor valves as opposed to cylindrical ones. Has anyone seen/played a similar instrument?

Sorry, forgot to include the link. Here it is.



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It didn't work...dumb html.

http://cgi.ebay.com/BOSTON-MUSIC-INST-ROTARY-VALVE-HORN-TRUMPET-TROMBONE_W0QQitemZ250344127164QQihZ015QQcategoryZ156320QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

Just copy that into your url space.

Actually, I have. When I was on tour years ago to Eastern Europe, I think in Vienna, we saw a large brass band in the city center and there were a few of these. I took a picture, I'll try to find it. They are a little more common in Euro brass bands.

Found it:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v121/peanut85/?action=view¤t=ECYSEuropeTour6-050526.jpg