Posted by Erik on November 20, 2001 at 22:49:13:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Help an amateur with some new tuba vocab posted by Ola on November 20, 2001 at 10:59:27:
On trombones it is an alternate name for the F-valve. I have usually heard it called a trigger when used in the context of describing positions (trigger-1st, trigger-3rd, etc). I think the term is a bit ambiguous actually, and could refer to either a valve or a slide-kicker type of device.
IMO...
Erik