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BrassBulletin

International Magazine for Brass Players

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Browse Brass Bulletin articles published since 1971. Search by topic, subject, instrument, author, series or issue, with new material added as the digital edition grows.

Glenn Ferris - Profile Member
No. 23 • 1978 Digitized

Glenn Ferris - Profile

Beyond fame and labels: Glenn Ferris rejects the music business game—defining a raw, uncompromising vision of creativity, freedom, and what it means to truly play.

By Lee Underwood

Encounters Professional life Freelance Jazz
No. 90 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Emiko Ikeda & Chisato Abe

Portraits

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 101 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Modern British composers & British brass playing

By Amos Miller, Christopher Horn

Repertoire
No. 62 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

The Tibetan Ritual Orchestra

By Daniel Scheidegger

Report History
No. 85 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Tokyo, Japan

10th annual competition for wind instruments

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Competition
No. 108 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

A short history of the tuba in Russia

By Alexeï Levachkine

History
No. 66 • 1989 Awaiting digitization

Eric Aubier, unveiling of a great talent

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 100 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

Passau, a competition out of the ordinary

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Competition
Music in an American Frontier Communal Society Member
No. 34 • 1981 Digitized

Part 1

Music in an American Frontier Communal Society

Aurora Colony

In a German communal settlement on the Oregon frontier, bands, choirs and original compositions shaped daily life as strongly as faith, work and education.

By Deborah M. Olsen

History Society Sociology Brass Ensemble Historical instruments
Editorial Free
No. 12 • 1975 Digitized

Editorial

Do musicians really need associations? Jean-Pierre Mathez questions whether collective structures empower individuals—or simply recreate the same passivity they seek to escape.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

No. 70 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

André Lafosse (1890-1975)

Master of Trombone

By Jean Douay

Encounters
On hunting horns and other similar instruments Member
No. 47 • 1984 Digitized

On hunting horns and other similar instruments

From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)

Hunting horns, buccinae and cornets blur into one another as Trichet links ancient signals, shepherds, hunters and myth to the instruments of his own age.

By Pierre Trichet

History Equipment Historical instruments
No. 79 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

The weirdest summer story

A strange cult

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Short story
Editorial Free
No. 34 • 1981 Digitized

Editorial

Beyond technique and instruction, musical growth depends on trusted relationships, where friendship becomes both a measure of progress and a safeguard against isolation.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Teaching Society Ideas Interpretation
No. 89 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

School of trumpet in Liège

By Rosario Macaluso

History
No. 75 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

1796-1908: the long sleep of the Haydn trumpet concerto...

By Hans-Joachim Krumpfer

History Repertoire
No. 62 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

Homage to Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1992)

Crazy, but not that crasy

By Michel Laplace

Encounters
No. 116 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Brasses in Sicily

By Salvatore Distefano

Report
No. 72 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Carnival of Venice at the age of more than 125!

By Emil Hermann

History Repertoire
No. 92 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Piston Instrument Care

By David Holloway

Equipment
No. 77 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Dutch Horn Society 1982-1992

Special Holland

By Louise Schepel

Report
Tower-watchmen and night-watchmen in Bohemia Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

Tower-watchmen and night-watchmen in Bohemia

From Hussite suspicion of musicians to tower signals over Bohemian towns, horns and trumpets shaped civic life, danger warnings and ritual memory.

By Vaclav Hoza

History Society Sociology Historical instruments
No. 115 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

Stage fright and instrumental technique (1)

By Michel Ricquier

Health
Horn and Harp Free
No. 40 • 1982 Digitized

Horn and Harp

Virtuoso showpieces once filled concert halls, yet today the rare pairing of horn and harp preserves a forgotten musical world shaped by performers themselves.

By Ch. Bernsdorff-Engelbrecht

Repertoire
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Brass Bulletin was published in English, French, and German throughout its history. Italian and Spanish translations were added from issue No. 60 onward.

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