Strumenti storici
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Václav F. Cerveny (1819-1896)
Famous instrument maker
A pioneer of brass design: V. F. Červený shaped modern wind instruments—challenging Adolphe Sax and defining the rich sound of the Austrian school.
Di Vaclav Hoza
La tromba universale di Gabriele Cassone
Strumenti barocchi, Berio e musica italiana dimenticata convivono in Cassone in una concezione insolitamente ampia del trombettista moderno.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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300 Years of the Horn
in the Dresden Court Orchestra
From Dresden’s court musicians to Hampel’s hand-horn technique, virtuoso players and court repertoire shaped a decisive shift in horn playing and orchestral writing.
Di Peter Damm
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The stamps on Sax instruments
Sax instrument stamps reveal makers, addresses, patents and distinctions, giving collectors concrete clues for dating instruments across three generations.
Di M. Haine, I. De Keyser
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The alto trombone and contemporary concepts of trombone timbre
Alto trombone timbre from Vienna to Brahms, orchestral balance, period practice, and why bright brass sounds gradually disappeared.
Di William E. Runyan
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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.
Di Kurt Janetzky
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The trombone: changing times, changing slide positions
Did trombonists always use seven positions? Heinrich Huber reveals how history, theory and early music reshaped the slide.
Di Heinrich Huber
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The Baroque trumpet, the high trumpet and the so-called Bach trumpet
Continuation of Edward H. Tarr’s study on the Baroque trumpet, examining the high trumpet and further clarifying the concept of the “Bach trumpet.”
Di Edward H. Tarr
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Editorial
A wealth of Baroque music lies dormant in libraries, caught between historical instrument names, technical demands, and the competing claims of horn and trumpet players.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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The tuba in France
How did the tuba emerge as an orchestral force? Fernand Lelong and Robert Coutet trace its path—from serpent to Sax—and its rapid rise.
Di Fernand Lelong, Robert Coutet
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The contrabass sackbut
a modern copy
A reconstructed 17th-century contrabass sackbut revives forgotten low brass practice, from Venetian polychoral music to modern performance challenges.
Di Richard Lister
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Reminiscence of trombonists of the past
Echoes of the past: Werner Beyer traces great trombonists from the 17th century to Wagner’s era—revealing how tradition, players, and instruments shaped the modern orchestra.
Di Werner Beyer
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On the Cornett and Serpent
From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)
Written around 1640, Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique preserves a firsthand account of the cornett and serpent in musical life and construction.
Di Pierre Trichet
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On Trumpets
Trumpets served war, ceremony and even medicine before Trichet turned to the mute, a simple device whose purpose extended far beyond changing the sound.
Di Pierre Trichet
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300 Years of the Horn
1680-1980, an attempted survey
From Versailles to Bohemia, hunting horns enter orchestral life through makers, players, early works and the Austro-Bohemian tradition.
Di Peter Damm
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Japanese painting from the 18th century
An 18th-century Okinawan scroll preserves a ceremonial procession where Chinese-derived instruments, including the rapa trumpet, marked diplomatic exchange with Japan.
Di Fujio Nakayama
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Tower-watchmen and night-watchmen in Bohemia
From Hussite suspicion of musicians to tower signals over Bohemian towns, horns and trumpets shaped civic life, danger warnings and ritual memory.
Di Vaclav Hoza
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Music in an American Frontier Communal Society
Aurora Colony
Aurora’s bands, chamber groups and restored instruments show how communal faith, German heritage and American public life met in sound, from parlors to parades.
Di Deborah M. Olsen
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Interview with Hans Pizka
From Vienna horn traditions and natural-horn training to orchestral style and pedagogy, Hans Pizka reflects on the foundations of horn playing and musical identity.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
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The French Hunting horn, its history, its technique and its music
Centuries-old hunting signals still shape performance today, where technique, ritual and oral tradition preserved a musical language unlike any other brass practice.
Di Daniel Bourgue
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Early Brass Instruments and Restoration
Restoring historic brass instruments means deciding what to preserve, what to undo and how modern methods can serve objects shaped by another musical age.
Di Ursula Menzel
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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.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Jean-Baptiste Prin (1669-1742)
A tromba marine virtuoso
A forgotten string instrument leads to an unexpected treasury of Baroque trumpet music, challenging long-held assumptions about repertoire and performance.
Di Albert Hiller
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On the early history of valves and valve instruments in Germany (1814-1833)
Herbert Heyde traces early German valve instruments from Stoelzel’s horns to basses, makers, patents, and shifting brass-band sound.
Di Herbert Heyde