Editing Trombone (section)

=== Pedal tones ===
[[File:Trombone slide position pedal tones.png|thumb|right|250px|Trombone slide position "pedal tones".<ref name="Orchestration"/>]]

The B{{Music|flat}} [[pedal tone]] is frequently seen in commercial scoring but much less often in symphonic music, while notes below that are called for only rarely as they "become increasingly difficult to produce and insecure in quality" with A{{Music|flat}} or G being the bottom limit for most tenor trombonists.<ref name="Orchestration" /> The trombone's tubing is largely cylindrical, which inhibits the production of the fundamental as a pedal tone pitch. Instead, trombonists use the higher harmonics of the instrument to produce pedal tones, giving them a bright and hollow tone quality.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Myers |first=Arnold |title=Pedal Note |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2001}}</ref> Some contemporary orchestral writing, movie or video game scoring, trombone ensemble and solo works will call for notes as low as a pedal C, B, or even double pedal B{{Music|flat}} on the bass trombone.