Drum machines and turntables had replaced trumpets and trombones as the instruments of choice.
Years in a museum has left the trombones with "all sorts of horrible gunk inside them", he said.
It depicts young, good-looking, racially diverse scientists playing trombones, sipping fruity cocktails and walking barefoot in the park.
Today, the band has 60 trained members who share 16 trombones, six side drums, four tubas and a bass drum.
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The trombones, which belonged to Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst, are being restored at a small factory in Honley, West Yorkshire.
Trombonist Sue Addison specialises in playing historical music on authentic instruments of the age, and said the trombones were a pleasure to play.
Blues musicians used the trumpets and trombones left over from wartime music to mimic the sound of their voices, literally singing out their pain through their instruments.
Beethoven was the first to include trombones in symphonic music, introducing them to great dramatic effect in the last movement of his Fifth Symphony (1808).
Mozart used trombones for this purpose in his operas The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, and he included a prominent trombone solo in his Requiem.
Volunteer buglers, young and old, teenagers, firemen, civilians and veterans with trumpets, tubas, trombones and bugles, all stood at attention along roads and highways waiting, honoring and remembering.
The trombones have been regular members of the orchestra since.
Developed at Wagner's request at a time when the technical capabilities of modern brass instruments were being expanded, it enabled him to fill a gap in tone color between the mellow lyricism of the horns and the penetrating brilliance of the trombones.
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In what may have been the weekend's best set, Leslie Feist was exquisite on Saturday night as she explored her latest album, "Metals, " with the addition of an 18-piece ensemble of strings and horns, including several trombones that enriched the warmth of the backing vocals provided by the female trio Mountain Man.
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