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Akim Alexeyevich Kozlov
A Trombone Artist
Behind decades of orchestral excellence, one trombonist shaped a school of playing whose influence reached far beyond Leningrad and the concert hall.
Di Anatoly Barantsev
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The attack
Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.
Di Louis Davidson
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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.
Di Jack Holland
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The Leningrad School of Horn Playing
From St. Petersburg to the Soviet era, generations of horn players shaped a distinctive approach to sound, interpretation, and orchestral playing.
Di Frøydis Ree Wekre
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Sergey Nikolaevich Yeryomin (1903-1975)
The Distinguished Soviet Trumpeter and Teacher
Between Soviet military bands, the Bolshoi and the Moscow Conservatory, Yeryomin helped shape a trumpet tradition in which virtuosity remained a means, not an end.
Di Yuri Usov
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A talk with Rolf Quinque
What if strength is the wrong approach? Rolf Quinque traces his shift from force to mastery through controlled breathing, discipline, and relaxed playing.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Mouthpiece pressure in Horn Playing
Graduation project in technical method
Long before sensors entered the practice room, one horn student measured embouchure pressure by hand, challenging assumptions that still shape brass pedagogy.
Di Edgar Bürger
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The Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Haydn’s trumpet concerto becomes a study of manuscript detail, performance choices, and the fragile ways listeners receive a familiar work.
Di Alfred Willener
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Parte 3
The Trumpet in the USA
Gadgets I
From Schilke soundposts to piccolo trumpet extensions, American performers turned technical frustrations into specialized tools for modern playing.
Di Thomas Stevens
The lead trumpet player
A survey of training, practice and equipment
Article on lead trumpet playing, covering training, practice methods and equipment for achieving accuracy, endurance and style.
Di John Harding
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Practical Hints
A single Clarke study becomes a lesson in note placement, breath control and continuity, as James Stamp reshapes a familiar exercise through preparation.
Di James Stamp
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The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
The “Classical” Period 1927-1945 — The Golden Age of the Trumpet
Between Armstrong’s rise and bebop’s arrival, the trumpet became jazz’s dominant voice, reshaping technique, orchestras, sound, mutes and virtuosity.
Di Michel Laplace
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My new developed descant double horn
Why does the ideal horn not exist? Theo Westhof designs a new descant double horn to solve tuning and tone issues—without compromise.
Di Theo Westhof
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The contrabass trombone
Picture and sketches, taking particularly into account the construction principles (1973)
Inside the workshop of innovation: Heinrich Thein reveals how rethinking every detail—from valves to bell—transforms the contrabass trombone into a modern orchestral instrument
Di Heinrich Thein
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Some thoughts on the euphonium and euphonium technique
The euphonium revealed: Barrie Perrins explores its history, technique, and expressive power—making a compelling case for its place as one of brass’s most versatile solo voices.
Di Barrie Perrins
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Tuba and Euphonium today
A new era for low brass: Willy Kurath explores how modern tuba and euphonium design—driven by innovation and collaboration—redefines sound, technique, and solo potential.
Di Willi Kurath
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The founders of the French Trumpet School
Merri Franquin, Eugène Foveau and Raymond Sabarich
Franquin, Foveau and Sabarich appear through their Paris careers, teaching legacies, recordings and role in shaping modern French trumpet playing.
Di Michel Laplace
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An Introduction to "In Tune"
the Scale of Just Intonation
Long before electronic tuners, brass players faced a choice between mathematical order and acoustic truth, with consequences that still shape ensemble playing today.
Di Jack Holland
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Brass instrument research at Surrey University
Acoustics, materials, bore design, and player perception meet in Surrey research linking laboratory measurements with the realities of brass performance.
Di John Goodwin
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The tuba in Europe
Why does the tuba sound different across Europe? Robert Tucci explores national styles, instruments and orchestral traditions.
Di Robert Tucci
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Use of a spectral model in developing concepts of tuba timbre
Can great tuba sound be measured? This groundbreaking study turns timbre into data — offering a visual model that could transform how players hear and shape their sound.
Di Daniel D. Stancil
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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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Relaxation and musical performance
Breath, fingers and muscular tension form a hidden technical chain in wind playing, as Michel Ricquier links virtuosity to bodily awareness.
Di Michel Ricquier
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Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?
Deliberate divisions
Improvisation, articulation and ornament were once inseparable: Peter Damm recovers an 18th-century horn practice later narrowed by increasingly precise notation.
Di Peter Damm