Re: [Finale] Trombone (accent?) marking

[RaymondBHorton]

Liudas Motekaitis wrote: >Can someone please clarify a symbol I have come across for trombone. The >symbol looks like an up-bow marking for stringed instruments, when placed >above the note. When placed below the note, the symbol is turned upside down >so that the point of the "V" points in the direction of the note. Christopher Smith replied: >If it changes direction, then it isn't what >I think it is, which is a "V" for "valve", >meaning play it with the F key. Jim O'Briant replied: >As a long-time low brass player, starting on the trombone more than 45 years >ago, I have never seen any marking in any sheet music that tells a >trombonist when to use the "F Attachment" valve.  This is one of those >decisions that is best left to the player to decide. >(more omitted) The "V" mark for the F attachment is used in several trombone method books, such as Reginald Fink's popular F-attachment edition of the Blume etudes.  As for the upside down V, I've never seen a standard marking for the second valve on a double-valve bass trombone, perhaps the upside-down V is meant to be just that?  Or, more probably, perhaps it is simply meant to be the F valve marking below a note, turned upside-down so as not to be confused with a marcato accent.  (If I saw the music I could probably say with reasonable certainty.) Ray Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra