The bass trombone in G (the orchestral version was in G equipped with a rotary valve attachment actuating D or C, extending the range to A1 or A1) enjoyed a period of extended popularity in France during the second half of the nineteenth century, and in Great Britain and the British Empire from approximately 1850 to the 1950s, though it lingered on in some parts of Britain until the 1970s and 1980s and is still occasionally to be seen there in brass bands and period instrument orchestras.