The plastic pBone trombone is a jazzy success for British music makers. Jayne Atherton Published Sep 3, 2013, 5:55pm | Updated Dec 10, 2019, 3:49pm.

Meet Miles, a 7-year-old who isn't just proficient on the pBone. "This is my trombone. It's called a pBone because it's for kids," Miles said as he showed how to play a C note on the instrument.

However, with sales of more than 150,000 since the plastic trombone - called the pBone - was launched in 2010, musicians are talking of a significant revival of the instrument.

The pBone – a full size, b-flat tenor trombone – was invented by Warwickshire musician Hugh Rashleigh. Hugh graduated in engineering design from Loughborough University and combined his two ...

Hugh, aged 25, a gigging musician, brass teacher and musical director of the Royal Spa Brass band, said: “pBone is a full size, B-flat tenor trombone.

A QUARTET is hoping to introduce the world of music to a new generation – with a plastic trombone invented in Leamington. As reported in the Telegraph last month, the pBone was invented by Hugh ...

Trombone Champ is the creation of Dan Vecchitto, a web application designer at Penguin Random House, who — in partnership with his wife, Jackie Vecchitto — in his spare time makes video games ...

Plastic trombone manufacturer wins plaudits in Queen ... The Tamworth-based company has now sold more 250,000 of its pBone instruments which were conceived by former engineering student and ...

Light, durable and ergonomic, the pBone is now the world’s most popular trombone, selling more than 120,000 units in two years. Some 90pc of Warwick Music’s £2m turnover comes from outside ...

Warwick Music Group is the parent company of Warwick Music, Ian Bousfield Mouthpieces, pBone (the world’s first plastic trombone with sales of more than 120,000 across the world), pBone Mini ...

YOUNG people are being given the chance to get their hands on their own personally designed trombone as part of this year’s BRASS Festival in… ...