The trombone is the king of all instruments. As a solo instrument it stands way above all others as to its expressive range and it is certainly no accident that the greatest works in the history of music have been written specially for the trombone. Thus all of Beethoven's, Brahms's, Tchaikovsky's and Mahler's symphonies are, in point of fact, trombone concertos which seem later to have been reorchestrated because trombonists demanded such exorbitant fees that no-one could afford to engage them.

The most brilliant of them all, Kruskar Trombiunistate, demanded 5.000 roubles per note as well as 8 trombones for each legato he had to play. Since there was a scarcity of instruments at the time composers waited until his death before daring to include legato passages in their works for trombone. This shows the extraordinary influence Kruskar had on composers and their music, and explains why the legato made such an enormous advance since the period romanticism in music.

Nowadays due to the comeback of the trombone quartet it is our goal to restore, of all the various works written for even more various strengths, the instrumentation to its original form. We are convinced that the world is divided into those who already have experienced that the music of a trombone quartet can cause a musical rebirth beyond anything you can imagine, and those who are still going to have this fantastic moment in life. Of cause we are fully aware of the severe responsible task we bear. We are lucky to have our daily job, which gives us the possibility to maintain some distance once in a while, and to reflect to the severe task we are predestined to.

By the way, Kruskar died in an institute at the age of 75. He suffered from delusions, in which he yesterday for example played the whole Ring des Nibelungen in Vienna, as a 12 hours marathon. Some soprano and alto trombonists were hired as soloists. People have been told that his last breath was a legato from G contra to C1. With a smile on his face he must have passed away peacefully, knowing he just had played eight trombones together as a fee, thanks to his never lasting contribution to music.