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Hermann Baumann
A virtuoso's career
A career built on sound, memory and the natural horn shows how Hermann Baumann helped redefine what a horn soloist could be on the international stage.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The trombone: changing times, changing slide positions
From Virgiliano to Praetorius and Eisel, early sources reshape long-held assumptions about trombone tuning, slide positions and historical playing practice.
Por Howard Weiner
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The Baroque trumpet, the high trumpet and the so-called Bach trumpet
Edward H. Tarr examines the Baroque trumpet and clarifies the origins and meaning of the so-called “Bach trumpet.”
Por Edward H. Tarr
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On the early history of valves and valve instruments in Germany (1814-1833)
At the origin of modern brass: Herbert Heyde uncovers the true story of valve invention—revealing rivalries, experiments, and the breakthrough that transformed musical history.
Por Herbert Heyde
And approach the realm of making beautiful music
A rare and powerful call from maestro Roger Bobo: at the height of the “Tuba Explosion”, he challenges players to define — at last — the ideal instrument.
Por Roger Bobo
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The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
A 1795 encyclopedia captures brass and wind instruments at a moment when their language, character and expressive roles were understood rather differently.
Por Anonyme
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Parte 9
Instrument makers in USA
Yamaha Music Products
In Grand Rapids, Japanese precision met American manufacturing, as Yamaha balanced imported components, skilled craftsmanship and the demands of a growing brass instrument market.
Por Stephan Suter
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Understanding the mouthpiece
A brass player's limitations may have less to do with technique than equipment, as subtle changes in mouthpiece design can transform comfort, response and performance.
Por John Stork
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Parte 8
Instrument Makers in USA
Getzen
Two devastating factory fires, rapid reconstruction and a growing export market shaped Getzen’s rise in Wisconsin, where craftsmanship met industrial ambition.
Por Stephan Suter
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Parte 2
The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
In 1795, musical instruments were thought to need no further invention, yet their materials, construction and acoustic possibilities remained open to experimentation.
Por Anonyme
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Points and areas of corrosion in brass instruments
Red spots on brass instruments were often blamed on players and poor maintenance, yet the causes of premature corrosion may lie in manufacturing and surface treatments.
Por Karl Hachenberg
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Brass in the Operas of Berlioz
Berlioz turned a changing brass section into a dramatic force, using horns, trombones, cornets and saxhorns to shape colour, distance, ceremony and fear.
Por Benjamin Perl
Parte 3
The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
Por Anonyme
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On the Sackbut or Harmonic Trumpet
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.
Por Pierre Trichet
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The Remarkable Story Behind the Cover
A war, a theft, and an unexpected recovery turned one nineteenth-century cornet into a witness to musical memory beyond its craftsmanship and sound.
Por Jean-Michel Gauffriau
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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.
Por Deborah M. Olsen
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Cesare Bendinelli (1542-1617)
Biography
Cesare Bendinelli (1542–1617), imperial trumpeter and teacher, shaped a tradition and wrote the first trumpet method — a key document of Renaissance brass playing.
Por Edward H. Tarr
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My Experiences with Colleagues and Pupils
in 50 Years as trumpet player and trumpet teacher
Across five decades, Heinz Burum links trumpet embouchure, mouthpiece design and teaching practice to concrete cases from orchestras, pupils and colleagues.
Por Heinz Burum
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The bell-tuning trumpet
Colin Bloch examines bell- and slide-tuned trumpets, comparing intonation patterns through controlled tests and outlining structural causes behind observed deviations.
Por Colin Bloch
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Cesare Bendinelli (1542-1617)
The Trumpet Method
The first trumpet method rediscovered: Edward H. Tarr reveals how Bendinelli’s 1614 treatise reshapes our understanding of trumpet technique, signals, and ensemble art.
Por Edward H. Tarr
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Yamaha, an ambitious giant
Behind the rise of a future industrial giant lies an unexpected lesson in craftsmanship, cultural exchange and the discipline that reshaped wind instrument making.
Por Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Instrument Making and the Ear
From hearing physiology to workshop testing, E. Ferron links instrument design, acoustics and perception, where no two ears judge sound in quite the same way.
Por Emile Ferron
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J. G. Albrechtsberger (1736-1809)
Concertino for chromatic trumpet
Study by Reine Dahlqvist arguing that Albrechtsberger’s 1771 Eb concertino was intended for Jew’s harp rather than keyed or slide trumpet.
Por Reine Dahlqvist
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The F/Bb horn with whole-tone ascending 3rd valve
A different horn, a different approach: Francis Orval explores how an ascending 3rd valve reshapes technique, intonation and response.
Por Francis Orval