• edinbruh
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    2 months ago

    What about those 4 and 0 over the Es? Do they make sense for trombone?

    Because for violin they look like fingering hints. You can make that E with either the 4th finger on the A string or with no fingers on the E strings. You can see the same 4s on my picture. I think my book wanted to use this piece to teach when to use the 4th finger and when the empty string.

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      2 months ago

      The trombone starts at 1st position (slide all the way in) in my experience, so yeah you’re probably right about the marks being for violin, where I presume 0 means open/no fingering?

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        2 months ago

        Yes, they do. In that case, no fingers on the E string to make an E