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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. 83 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Norbert Böpple

Master craftsman

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Equipment
No. 116 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

Part 3

Stage fright and instrumental technique (2)

By Michel Ricquier

Health
No. 90 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Bernhard Krol

At 75! A look back on a life

By Bernhard Krol

Encounters
No. 98 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

Interview with Harold Nash

A half century with the trombone on the British music scene

By Simon Hogg

Encounters
Friedemann Immer Free
No. 50 • 1985 Digitized

Friedemann Immer

A new Trumpet

Baroque tradition and modern trumpet playing converge in Friedemann Immer’s unusual double career, shaped by Bach, natural trumpet and early music.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters Historical instruments
No. 103 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

No. 59 • 1987 Awaiting digitization

The early 19th-century invention-posthorn

By Albert Hiller

History Equipment
Editorial Free
No. 43 • 1983 Digitized

Editorial

Mass media, record-industry economics and the return of cornet virtuosity collide in a sharp warning about fashion, manipulation and musical independence.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Society Professional life Sociology Ideas Contemporary Music
No. 61 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Hakan Hardenberger

The conquest of the future

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 91 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Toulon 1995

International trombone competition

By Roland Schnohrk

Competition
No. 122 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

Ernie Hammes - Jazz in his blood

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
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. 88 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Editorial

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

The contrabass trombone Member
No. 22 • 1978 Digitized

Part 1

The contrabass trombone

Picture and sketches, taking particularly into account the construction principles (1973)

From Praetorius to Wagner: Heinrich Thein traces the evolution of the contrabass trombone—revealing how history, acoustics, and design shaped this powerful orchestral voice.

By Heinrich Thein

History Equipment Historical instruments Instrument making Valves
No. 98 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

Angelo Galletti, Hornist and collector

Of curious mind and cusrious character, this man of 84 years has never stopped examining and critiquing the world. A remarkable story about a amn and his love/hate relationship with his twin passions

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 120 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

Part 3

A look at the evolution of the valved cornet and its repertoire

By Géry Dumoulin

History
No. 84 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Clifford Brown (1930-1956)

A brief but full life

By Robert L. Watt

Encounters
No. 93 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Being a Concert Trombone

By Ronald Barron

Professional life Solo playing
Editorial Free
No. 50 • 1985 Digitized

Editorial

What began modestly in 1971 became a worldwide network, shaped by respect for brass players, shared knowledge, history and professional solidarity.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Why pretend to be Mozart? Member
No. 12 • 1975 Digitized

Why pretend to be Mozart?

The concerto’s cadenza: copy of style — or bold but true?

Should a cadenza imitate the past—or speak in today’s voice? Bernhard Krol questions the tradition of stylistic imitation and argues for cadenzas that bridge past and present with authenticity.

By Bernhard Krol

Repertoire Ideas Interpretation
No. 118 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

From a Designer’s Diary

By Denis Wedgewood

Equipment
No. 96 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Jacques Mauger, on 7th heaven with the trombone

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
Brass achieves academic respectability Member
No. 53 • 1986 Digitized

Special Finland

Brass achieves academic respectability

Once treated as marginal, Finland’s brass septet tradition entered academic research, challenging where folk practice ends and music history begins.

By Kauko Karjalainen

History Society Sociology Brass Ensemble
No. 106 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Part 15

Dental Clinic for Wind Players

Brass instruments and breathing

By Toshio Nemoto

Health Teeth
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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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