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Brass Bulletin 121 - 1 / 2003
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Brass Bulletin No. 121
Date
I / 2003
Pages
144
Contents
13 articles

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Brass Bulletin No. 121

I / 2003

Contents

13 articles

Editorial

Jean-Pierre Mathez

pp. 7–13

Salud to the Managers!

Thomas Stevens

pp. 26–27 Backstage

Anatoly Skobelev - Russian Grand Master of the trombone

Victor Batashev

pp. 30–36 Trombone Encounters

Jon Sass - Confidences of a happy tuba player

Jon Sass

pp. 38–41 Tuba Encounters

Otto Sauter - The determination to win

Jean-Pierre Mathez

pp. 44–53 Trumpet Encounters
Part 3 – End

The Moravian brotherhood trombone choirs: neither Moravian nor choirs

Ken Shifrin

pp. 56–63 Trombone History

The unpublished horn file...

Uwe Uustalu, Uwe Bartels, Stephan Katte

pp. 66–69 Horn History
Part 1

Classical music: Why bother?

Joshua Fineberg

pp. 72–77 Society
Part 7

The instrumental player’s maintenance and development

The opinion of an expert

James Thompson

pp. 80–81 Teaching
Part 23 – End

Dental Clinic for Wind Players

Take care when brushing between the teeth

Toshio Nemoto

pp. 84–87 Health
Part 3 – End

Feeling pain while playing a musical instrument

Urban Diethelm

pp. 90–93 Health

The Langhammer/Meinl saga

From Christian Langhammer to Gerhard A. Meinl and Ja Musik GmbH

Jean-Pierre Mathez

pp. 102–113 Equipment

Stellio Calvetti - Clever Inventor

Stefano Viola

pp. 114–116 Trombone Equipment
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