Costruttori di strumenti
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Parte 3
The Art of the Musical Instrument Maker
Encyclopédie méthodique — Paris 1795
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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
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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
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Parte 6
The Trumpet in the USA
Diverse makers
As trumpet makers rethink their standard instruments, Monette, Malone and Blackburn bring leadpipe design into a new dialogue between players and workshops.
Di Thomas Stevens
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Parte 6
Instrument Makers in USA
Holton (G. Leblanc Corporation)
In Elkhorn, Wisconsin, traditional craftsmanship meets industrial production, while Holton confronts the delicate balance between innovation and musicians’ conservatism.
Di Stephan Suter
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Renold Schilke at Frankfurt
Interview
Jean-Pierre Mathez reports on Renold Schilke’s views at Frankfurt, addressing fair organisation, maker–musician collaboration, and shifting market dynamics shaped by demand and quality criteria.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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Parte 7
Instrument Makers in USA
Martin (G. Leblanc Corporation)
In 1970s Wisconsin, industrial efficiency transformed brass instrument production, yet traditional craftsmanship still had a place on the factory floor.
Di Stephan Suter
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Steve Lewis, Hornmaker
Old World Craftsmanship plus New World Technology
In 1980s Chicago, Steve Lewis joined Old World bench craft to modern precision, building horns one by one around the player, the metal and a distinctive sound.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
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Brass instruments from the musical town of Graslitz
From 18th-century Graslitz to postwar Bavaria, brass makers rebuilt a vanished musical industry around Miraphone, preserving craft through exile and industrial change.
Di Rudolf Limmer
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The history of the big York-Hirsbrunner Tuba
The instrument maker's point of view
A legendary orchestral tuba became the starting point for rethinking how craftsmanship, industrial methods and musical results rarely follow the same path.
Di Peter Hirsbrunner
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Five generations of mouthpiece specialists
From Höchstädt to Markneukirchen and beyond, five generations of Schmidts shaped brass mouthpiece design through craft, anatomy and evolving orchestral demands.
Di Werner Christoph Schmidt
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Instrument Makers in USA
American brass making in the mid-1980s stood between workshop tradition and industrial change, with ten firms offering a striking cross-section of the trade.
Di Stephan Suter
United Philharmonic Orchestra Vienna
A tonal concept unites the brass section
Di Gerhard Zechmeister
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
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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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Editorial
Behind a musician’s instrument lies a quiet industrial battle, as European, American and Japanese makers compete to shape the future of brass playing.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
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On the sensitivity of brass instruments
Metal, pressure nodes and temperature shifts shape response, timbre and tuning, as Emile Ferron links instrument acoustics to the player’s imprint.
Di Emile Ferron
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Parte 5
Instrument Makers in USA
S. W. Lewis Orchestral Horns
For Steven Lewis, building a horn begins with playing it: craftsmanship, acoustic compromise and observation shape instruments made for musicians rather than theory.
Di Stephan Suter
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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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Parte 3
Instrument Makers in USA
C. G. Conn Ltd. Abilene, Texas
In Abilene, automated production and workshop skills meet under a familiar name, as an American brass maker seeks to regain ground lost over the previous decade.
Di Stephan Suter