Attrezzatura
126 articoli disponibili online
Membro
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.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Membro
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.
Di Howard Weiner
Gratuito
Parte 1
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.”
Di Edward H. Tarr
Gratuito
Parte 1
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.
Di 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.
Di Roger Bobo
Gratuito
Parte 1
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.
Di Anonyme
Gratuito
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.
Di Stephan Suter
Membro
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.
Di John Stork
Gratuito
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.
Di Stephan Suter
Gratuito
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.
Di Anonyme
Membro
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.
Di Karl Hachenberg
Membro
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.
Di Benjamin Perl
Parte 3
The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
Di Anonyme
Membro
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.
Di Pierre Trichet
Gratuito
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.
Di Jean-Michel Gauffriau
Membro
Parte 1
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.
Di Deborah M. Olsen
Membro
Parte 1
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.
Di Edward H. Tarr
Membro
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.
Di Heinz Burum
Membro
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.
Di Colin Bloch
Membro
Parte 2
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.
Di Edward H. Tarr
Membro
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.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Gratuito
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.
Di Emile Ferron
Membro
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.
Di Reine Dahlqvist
Membro
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.
Di Francis Orval