Salute
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Membro
Nerves, Pills and Doping
Behind a debate once confined to musicians lies a wider shift in how performance anxiety, medication and professional responsibility began to be separated instead of confused.
Di Christian Baechler
Membro
Parte 3
Maurice André
Biography
Maurice André reflects on maturity—balancing performance, recordings and teaching, refining his approach to instruments and audience, and preparing for the limits of a virtuoso career.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Gratuito
Serie Tecnica degli ottoni • Parte 1
The Brain
Instrumental mastery begins beyond the instrument itself, where motivation, concentration and self-awareness shape the musician’s progress and artistic development.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Breathing and the physiological mask
Air is not everything: Michel Ricquier challenges the “air column” myth, revealing how breathing and the “physiological mask” together unlock control, power, and ease.
Di Michel Ricquier
Gratuito
Parte 1
Zen and the Art of Horn playing
Beyond technique: Jeffrey Agrell explores how Zen challenges Western thinking—revealing a new path to awareness, focus, and deeper musical experience in horn playing.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
Membro
Parte 4
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
The instrument for jazz
Jazz trumpet playing balances equipment, embouchure and articulation, as changing sound ideals reshape mouthpieces, technique and the physical approach to playing.
Di Michel Laplace
Membro
The subconscious, a useful friend
From yogic practices to auto-hypnosis, mental conditioning and visualisation are linked to performance, self-control, and the body's hidden responses.
Di Michel Ricquier
Parte 18
Dental Clinic for Wind Players
Influence of the lateral teeth upon sound production
Di Toshio Nemoto
Parte 22
Dental Clinic for Wind Players
For brass players having wisdom teeth extracted is not without risk
Di Toshio Nemoto
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
Gratuito
Overlays and bonding
New dental aids for brass players
A trumpeter’s dental experiments in the 1980s turned teeth, mouthpiece pressure and embouchure into an unexpected field of collaboration with dentistry.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
Brass players athletes
Brass players are athletes. Bengt Belfrage reveals how training, recovery, breathing, and mental focus—borrowed from sport—can transform performance and endurance.
Di Bengt Belfrage
Gratuito
Editorial
Artistic progress is measured not only in technique but in doubt, self-awareness and hope, as Jean-Pierre Mathez looks beyond the instrument to the person playing it.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Membro
The use of the mind in instrumental performance
Relaxation, concentration and mental imagery reshape technical practice, linking self-confidence and instrumental control beyond physical training alone.
Di Michel Ricquier
Gratuito
Basics in breathing
An Outline to a Better Sound
From breathing awareness to sound production, practical exercises link physical relaxation, air control and rhythmic precision in everyday brass playing.
Di Joel Elias
Gratuito
ASA-Method, ASA-Technic
Virtuosity grows from disciplined work on scales, articulation and reading, arguing that consistent fundamentals matter more than chasing the upper register.
Di Rolf Quinque
Membro
Parte 2
Zen and the Art of Horn playing
Beyond technique: Jeffrey Agrell explores the clash between intellect and intuition—arguing that true musical expression begins where analysis ends.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
Parte 6
Dental Clinic for Wind Players
Causes and cures of sudden vs. gradual embouchure and playing problems due to neuropathy
Di Toshio Nemoto
Membro
My teeth
A dentist visit that changed everything: René Périnelli reveals how his teeth directly shaped his trumpet playing.
Di René Périnelli
Membro
Sophrology and Music
For brass players, physical tension and concert anxiety can become habitual obstacles, while sophrology offers a different approach to posture, memory and performance.
Di Robert Ischer
Parte 20
Dental Clinic for Wind Players
Difficulties following a simple dental treatment
Di Toshio Nemoto
Parte 4
Dental Clinic for Wind Players
Unknown to most players, there may be significant changes in the internal oral environment of a musician during the process of wind instrument playing
Di Toshio Nemoto
Gratuito
Editorial
A warning from the machine: Jean-Pierre Mathez reflects on Kaufmann’s robot—questioning whether technology is shaping music… or slowly replacing the human artist.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Parte 11
Dental Clinic for Wind Players
Median space method
Di Toshio Nemoto