DICKINSON: Oh, my God. SAGAL: You love the trombone so much, you took it for your name, but what do you know about other, more obscure musical instruments, like the sackbut of the Renaissance?

Brass instruments are the ones made fully out of brass looking like long pipes, that widen at the end in a shape of a bell. They are played by buzzing lips against the metal mouth part.

That’s how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become household names, regardless of whether you know the difference between Prokofiev and Smirnoff. But old brass instruments of ...

2. NOT ALL INSTRUMENTS IN THE BRASS FAMILY ARE MADE OF BRASS. Instruments like conch shells and shofars (made of hollowed out animal horns) are still considered brass because they produce sound ...

In contrast, Lucy brings up the Didjeribone (a didgeridoo with a trombone-like slide). This is an unusual instrument whose sound she describes as being "terrifying and mesmerizing in equal parts." ...

If you liked “Guitar Hero” but wished it had more brass instruments, you’re in luck ... the trombone controls are – it plays more like a slide whistle than a trombone.” ...