
Harry James (1916-1983)
Young Man With A Horn
Por Michel Laplace
Harry James stood between jazz virtuosity and popular showmanship, turning the trumpet into a mass-audience voice without losing the respect of classical players.
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Young Man With A Horn
Por Michel Laplace
Harry James stood between jazz virtuosity and popular showmanship, turning the trumpet into a mass-audience voice without losing the respect of classical players.

Por Pierre Trichet
A seventeenth-century description of the sackbut captures its moving slide, chromatic freedom and bass role at a moment when the instrument was still being defined.
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N.º 26 · 1979
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Many years ago, William Vacchiano of the New York Philharmonic purchased a Bach D trumpet which played horribly sharp in pitch. When he complained to Vincent Bach, the latter, in his own inimitable style, responded by saying Vacchiano didn’t know how to play the instrument properly! So Vacchiano put the instrument in a closet and never played it. Twenty years later he discovered the instrument had been improperly fitted with an E♭ trumpet leadpipe!
— Thomas Stevens
N.º 43 1983
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Should today's hornist avail himself, then, of a corno da caccia for Bach, an invention horn for Mozart, an F horn for Brahms? I do — but only on the condition that the rest of the ensemble is likewise using historical instruments. Otherwise, the same effect would result as when a carriage of the turn of the century were to be coupled to a modern diesel locomotive...
— Hermann Baumann
N.º 3 1972
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Por Frieder Held

Trompa
Por Michael Höltzel

Trombón
Por Albert Mertens

Bombardino
Por Barrie Perrins
Tuba
Por Lewis Waldeck

Trompeta
Por Thomas Stevens
Momentos históricos plasmados en las páginas del Journal de Brass Bulletin.
Mauro Maur • Patrick Fabert • Thierry Caens • Guy Touvron
Brass Bulletin n.º 36 1981
Explorar este númeroN.º 41 · 1983
Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.
Por Louis Davidson
N.º 40 · 1982
A legendary orchestral tuba became the starting point for rethinking how craftsmanship, industrial methods and musical results rarely follow the same path.
Por Peter Hirsbrunner
N.º 39 · 1982
Intonation, held notes and mouthpiece work shape James Stamp's subtle approach to trumpet playing, where listening and physical economy guide technique.
Por Alfred Willener
N.º 41 · 1983
Between blind fidelity and reckless modernisation, instrument substitutions force performers to decide when the score’s wording serves—or betrays—the music.
Por Rudolf Lewy
N.º 37 · 1982
From imperial St. Petersburg to Soviet Leningrad, Volkov shaped a distinctive Russian trombone tradition through performance, teaching and generations of pupils.
Por Viktor Sumerkin
N.º 41 · 1983
Behind the polished sound of Los Angeles studio trumpet playing stood remarkably similar training, disciplined routines, and a craft shaped by constant stylistic demands.
Por Boyde Hood
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