F Attachment introduction in history

[alberttrombone]

Hello bone players,

Anybody knows in which year was created the F Attachment?

Thanks!

[mrpillow]

Patented in 1839, likely conceived in one of the immediate prior years.

[LeTromboniste]

A sidenote on that : No original F-attachment has survived from the maker (C.F. Sattler) who first came up with that, but it's not at all unlikely that the first valves used for F attachments were not rotaries but some variety of piston valves (some of the earliest surviving F attachments have Berlin valves, for example).

[Tremozl]

MrPillow is probably spot on. I know for Wagner's Ring cycle premiere he employed F attachment trombones (as well as a BBb Contrabass Trombone without an attachment, and a Bass Trombone, though I dont know the details of the Bass' set up) and they were considered "new" instruments at the time. They were all also received rather negatively. Today our trigger trombones are supposedly constructed a little better and the Wagner is always played professionally with an F Contra instead (BBb Contra is really only used in the occasional film score these days.)