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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.

Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris Member
No. 18 • 1977 Digitized

Advices from an expert brass clinician: Robert Pichaureau, Paris

What if everything you control is wrong? This radical approach to brass playing shifts focus away from the embouchure — back to the true origin of breath and sound.

By Alfred Willener

Technique Teaching Breathing Sound Tongue
No. 116 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Guebwiller 2001 - Philip Jones International Competition - horn and brass ensembles

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Competition
No. 78 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Brass Dynasty

Special Czechoslovakia

By Libuse Burianova

Report History
No. 71 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Arturo Sandoval

Free at last!

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 85 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Boosey & Hawkes

A spectacular revival

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Repertoire Equipment
No. 64 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Part 3

Homage to Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1992)

By Michel Laplace

Encounters
No. 84 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Kiev Post

By Kamel Haddag

Report
No. 97 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

Part 4

Brass Bulletin 1971-1996, the fruit of the passion

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 74 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

Josef Kail (1795-1871)

Forgotten brass instrument innovator

By Cizek Bohuslav

Equipment
No. 114 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Visualization of Brass Player’s Warm up by Infrared Thermography

By Matthias Bertsch

Technique
Emile Joseph Trognée (1868-1942) Free
No. 51 • 1985 Digitized

Emile Joseph Trognée (1868-1942)

Discovery of unpublished trumpet studies

Forgotten in Leningrad for decades, Trognée’s unpublished trumpet studies reconnect the Belgian virtuoso with a European tradition his Russian career had obscured.

By Anatoly Selianin

Repertoire History
No. 122 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

Keyed and valved bugles, cornets and trumpets in french grand opera

By William E. Runyan

History Repertoire
The trombone: changing times, changing slide positions Member
No. 11 • 1975 Digitized

The trombone: changing times, changing slide positions

Did trombonists always use seven positions? Heinrich Huber reveals how history, theory and early music reshaped the slide.

By Heinrich Huber

Technique History Historical instruments Intonation
Editorial Free
No. 38 • 1982 Digitized

Editorial

As concert life shifts away from brass, the future of the instrument depends on artistic standards, thoughtful programming and the commitment of every performer.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Professional life Society Interpretation Contemporary Music Solo playing
No. 64 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Yuri Usov

Special USSR

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) Biography Member
No. 13 • 1976 Digitized

Part 5

Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825-1889) Biography

The Arban-Cornet

At 55, Jean-Baptiste Arban sets out to reinvent the cornet and impose it on conservatories. A relentless quest for perfection… ending in failure.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

History
Editorial Free
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

Special Hungary

Editorial

Hungary’s brass world emerges as a cultural force, where organisation, international exchange and musical ambition turn national vitality into lasting connections.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Society
John Fletcher Member
No. 47 • 1984 Digitized

John Fletcher

Is Big Always Beautiful?

As brass instruments grew larger and louder, John Fletcher saw something being lost: the individual voice, clarity and character that make a player heard.

By Thomas Aitken

Encounters Sound Interpretation
No. 83 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Part 3

DSA Digital Analysis of Intonation and Sound

Tuning device

By Robert Meissner

Technique Acoustics
How and why I became a musician Member
No. 52 • 1985 Digitized

Part 3

How and why I became a musician

As cinema orchestras vanished and radio reshaped musical life, Edouard Gros learned that survival could mean changing instruments, cities and expectations.

By Edouard Gros

Professional life History Auditions Jazz
The saga of the cornet and six of its outstanding artists Member
No. 12 • 1975 Digitized

The saga of the cornet and six of its outstanding artists

The cornet reached extraordinary heights in the 19th century. Jack Hall traces the rise of its greatest virtuosi and a remarkable era of technical brilliance.

By Jack Hall

History Solo playing American school
The double-slide trombone Free
No. 30 • 1980 Digitized

The double-slide trombone

museum-piece with a future?

As virtuosity reshaped 20th-century brass playing, Boris G. Manzora argued that the forgotten double-slide trombone could redefine technique and range.

By Boris G. Manzora

Equipment Instrument Makers Historical instruments Instrument making Valves
No. 103 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

The spectacular rise of the euphonium

Interview with Steven Mead

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report
No. 62 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Reading music

By Michel Ricquier

Technique
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