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No. 83 • 1993 Awaiting digitization

Guy Touvron

Vive la France, vive Selmer!

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
The Pitch Finder
No. 46 • 1984 Digitized

The Pitch Finder

A 1980 attempt to make trumpet intonation mechanical shifts familiar pitch corrections from the embouchure to the fingers, with striking consequences for playing.

By Jack Holland

Equipment Technique Intonation Valves
Bad Säckingen, Trumpet museum
No. 53 • 1986 Digitized

Bad Säckingen, Trumpet museum

A romantic legend, a remarkable private collection and Edward H. Tarr’s scholarship converged in Bad Säckingen to give the trumpet a museum of its own.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

History Equipment Historical instruments
The Trumpet in the USA
No. 33 • 1981 Digitized

Part 4

The Trumpet in the USA

Gadgets II

Mouthpiece backbores for piccolo and C trumpet are compared through practical performer testing, linking equipment choices to sound, volume and intonation.

By Thomas Stevens

Equipment Mouthpiece Sound Intonation
No. 94 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Trumpeters and night wachtmen of old Zürich

By Walter Baumann

History
No. 78 • 1992 Awaiting digitization

Jan Hasenöhrl. Trumpet in freedom

Special Czechoslovakia

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 73 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Claudio Roditi

flamboyant Brazilian trumpet player

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
No. 101 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Thomas Harper Junior (1816-1898)

Travelling Through Time

By John Hutchins

History Encounters
The Trumpet Free
No. 29 • 1980 Digitized

The Trumpet

An exhibition at the Trumpeter's Castel in Bad Säckingen

Natural trumpets from Verona, Nürnberg and Vienna framed a 1979 gathering in Säckingen linking Baroque practice, collecting culture and modern playing.

By Kurt Janetzky

History Event Historical instruments Valves
No. 87 • 1994 Awaiting digitization

Maurice André

New directions

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
No. 47 • 1984 Digitized

Part 6

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music

Special jazz techniques

Vibrato, half-valves, growls and shakes lead to a larger argument: jazz transformed trumpet technique, yet its contribution remained strikingly undervalued.

By Michel Laplace

History Jazz Improvisation Articulation
Edna White
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

Edna White

A Woman and a Life in the Service of the Trumpet

At a time when the cornet still ruled, Edna White made the trumpet a solo voice, building a career across concert halls, radio, recordings and new repertoire.

By Michel Laplace

History Solo playing
No. 70 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Valaida Snow

Queen of the trumpet

By Michel Laplace

Encounters
No. 96 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Friedbert Syhre

35 years as an instrument maker in Leipzig

By Dagmar Rosenkranz

Equipment
The mute belt Free
No. 54 • 1986 Digitized

The mute belt

In Stockhausen's demanding trumpet works, six different mutes had to be changed while performing from memory, turning a practical problem into a new stage technique.

By Markus Stockhausen

Equipment Technique Contemporary Music Sound
How to regulate the trumpet, applicable to all valve instruments Free
No. 23 • 1978 Digitized

How to regulate the trumpet, applicable to all valve instruments

A hidden key to performance: Perinelli and Mouton reveal how precise valve regulation transforms response, intonation, and sound—down to a tenth of a millimetre.

By René Périnelli, J.-L. Mouton

Equipment Valves
No. 118 • 2002 Awaiting digitization

For the love of Besson trumpets

By Hal Oringer

Equipment
Tell it the way it is: Free
No. 22 • 1978 Digitized

Tell it the way it is:

A viewpoint of professional trumpet playing in the United States

A brutal reality check: Irving Bush exposes the gap between musical dreams and professional truth—revealing the harsh economics behind a career in trumpet playing.

By Irving Bush

Professional life Report Freelance Auditions American school
No. 106 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Jouko Harjanne, talent from the North

By Jeremy Mathez

Encounters
No. 64 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

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

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report Competition
No. 71 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Part 3

The arab Trumpet III (end) - The Art of Improvisation

The Art of Improvisation

By Nassim Maalouf

Report History
International Trumpet Competition, Budapest 1984
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

Special Hungary

International Trumpet Competition, Budapest 1984

Budapest 1984 exposed a striking gap between technical brilliance and musical maturity, while three leading trumpeters challenged what competitions truly reward.

By Timofey Dokschidser, Philip Jones, Théo Mertens

Competition Interpretation Solo playing
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music Free
No. 42 • 1983 Digitized

Part 1

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music

Before Louis Armstrong became the defining figure, jazz already carried competing traditions of tone, style and technique shaped by cornet players across New Orleans and beyond.

By Michel Laplace

History Repertoire Jazz Improvisation
No. 69 • 1990 Awaiting digitization

Charles Schlueter

Principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Encounters
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