Suggestion: Rent the highest level trombone that you can find. You may decide to change to a bass trombone -- I did in high school. You may start doubling on another instrument for jazz and change over. (Did that in college.) Renting keeps your optio...
I had a Conn and a King and a Hohner, there are a lot of good models, shop around and try them out- and do not get them online! I had to take one back because the bell of the instrument had a huge twisted dent in it! The larger bore trombones will be...
e-mail me at and I'll give you a quote on a similar trombone.