Editorial

This is a Brass Bulletin with holiday atmosphere! For once we shall not tell you all the exciting news, we shall not criticize musicians, records, books (nor publish other people's criticisms!). We want our readers to lean back in a leisurely way and enjoy the history of their instruments as presented in this issue. We expect you to relive in mind the old times when your instrument was born and to accompany it through the ages of everlasting perfectioning until it became the treasure we hold in hand now. We want you to try and imagine the tone of the ancient instruments and to reflect upon the musicians that played them in distant and different times. And it will no doubt lead you to dream contentedly about the continuous process of creation and evolution in this world.