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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.

No. 75 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Rafael Mendez (1906-1981)

Masters of the 20th century

By Michel Laplace

Encounters
No. 122 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

How dared they say that...

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Backstage
No. 62 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

The Alto Trombone

By Benny Sluchin

History Equipment
The Trumpets in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest Free
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

Special Hungary

The Trumpets in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest

Four little-known trumpets in Budapest open a window onto Viennese makers, historical construction, pitch and the fragile survival of museum instruments.

By Leo Kappel

Equipment Research Historical instruments Instrument making
No. 80 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Trumpet methods of the 19th century

By Friedrich Anzenberger

History Repertoire
On the sensitivity of brass instruments Free
No. 28 • 1979 Digitized

On the sensitivity of brass instruments

Cold-hammered hunting horns retain a tactile memory of sound and playing, leading Jacques Poncet to question how brass instruments evolve in use.

By Jacques Poncet

Equipment Acoustics Instrument making Sound
No. 92 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Piston Instrument Care

By David Holloway

Equipment
No. 64 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

2nd International "Maurice André" Trumpet Competition (1988)

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Competition
Natural trumpets, basic techniques Member
No. 51 • 1985 Digitized

Natural trumpets, basic techniques

Natural trumpet playing demands more than historical equipment: Friedemann Immer sets modern technique against Baroque sound, articulation, style and authenticity.

By Friedemann Immer

Technique Equipment Articulation Interpretation Historical instruments
No. 94 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Brasses: noisy instruments

By Benny Sluchin

Acoustics
Editorial Free
No. 32 • 1980 Digitized

Editorial

Progress by Stages

Between technical routine and lived experience, musical growth emerges through setbacks, observation and the gradual shaping of an individual voice.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Teaching Health Nerves Interpretation Ideas
No. 81 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

DSA - Digital analysis of intonation and sound

By Robert Meissner

Technique Acoustics
Editorial Free
No. 46 • 1984 Digitized

Editorial

An international brass congress exposes a deeper tension between global exchange, American influence and the need for musical cultures to preserve their identity.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Society Ideas
No. 115 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

The horn in China

By Thomas Crome

Report
Trombone workshops Free
No. 52 • 1985 Digitized

Trombone workshops

In Nashville, Copenhagen and Metz, trombone workshops took strikingly different forms, exposing the artistic ambitions and practical tensions behind a growing movement.

By Benny Sluchin

Report Event
No. 75 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Brass Instruments at the Moscow Conservatory

By Yuri Usov

Report
Salvation Army in Japan Free
No. 52 • 1985 Digitized

Salvation Army in Japan

Western-style brass music entered a once-isolated Japan through unexpected channels, with Salvation Army bands becoming part of a remarkable cultural transformation.

By Taku Satoh

History Society Sociology
No. 93 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

1997 - Tuba & euphonium featured at Guebwiller

By Philippe Pfisterer

Competition
Bach and the Others:
No. 120 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

Bach and the Others:

Eighteenth-Century Trumpeter-Hornists

Beyond Leipzig, the practice extended from Weissenfels to Dresden and Vienna, as horn and trumpet gradually diverged into distinct musical identities.

By Edward H. Tarr

History
Free
No. 17 • 1977 Digitized

Reflections on the brass player

Why do brass players so often resist new music? Vinko Globokar dismantles schools, routines, and traditions—and calls for a freer musical mindset.

By Vinko Globokar

Society Teaching Sociology Ideas Contemporary Music
On Trumpets Free
No. 49 • 1985 Digitized

On Trumpets

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

Trumpets served war, ceremony and even medicine before Trichet turned to the mute, a simple device whose purpose extended far beyond changing the sound.

By Pierre Trichet

History Equipment Historical instruments
No. 72 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

The Minute counter!

By Thomas Stevens

Society Ideas
No. 72 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Jan Koetsier

Composer for the glory of the brasses

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Repertoire
The Midwinter Horn Free
No. 37 • 1982 Digitized

The Midwinter Horn

De Midwinterhoorn

A Christmas horn tradition from eastern Netherlands preserves ancient construction, ritual and performance, linking rural practice with Leopold Mozart's Sinfonia pastorella.

By Herman Jeurissen

History Society Historical instruments Instrument making Sociology
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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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