Repairing a Bent Trombone Slide

The idea for constructing this series of pages on the technique and approach for slide action repair evolved steadily over the past several years. Here is a trombone slide that didn’t work very well, a typical problem we see all the time. This slide was measured and with the following results:

The slide was narrower at the crook end than it was at the brace and even more so in the middle, sort of an hour glass shape.

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