Out of print
Brass Bulletin No. 29
I / 1980
Contents
Editorial
Jean-Pierre Mathez
At the dawn of the 1980s, Brass Bulletin challenges institutional habits, avant-garde rigidity and brass pedagies through a direct appeal to younger musicians.
The Trumpet in the USA
Part 3Gadgets I
Thomas Stevens
From Schilke soundposts to piccolo trumpet extensions, American performers turned technical frustrations into specialized tools for modern playing.
ASA-Method
Rolf Quinque
From Bach’s clarino tradition to modern piccolo trumpet playing, extreme high-register technique is tied here to breath support, pressure control and disciplined endurance.
Dynamics in the 80's
Roger Bobo
From Reykjavik to the Hollywood Bowl, rising concert hall scale and amplified culture reshape orchestral sound, leaving acoustic limits exposed.
Five generations of mouthpiece specialists
Werner Christoph Schmidt
From Höchstädt to Markneukirchen and beyond, five generations of Schmidts shaped brass mouthpiece design through craft, anatomy and evolving orchestral demands.
Zen and the Art of Horn playing
Part 4 – EndJeffrey Agrell
From meditation to distance running, horn playing becomes a way of quieting mental noise, linking breath, concentration, and daily life.
Brass instruments from the musical town of Graslitz
Rudolf Limmer
From 18th-century Graslitz to postwar Bavaria, brass makers rebuilt a vanished musical industry around Miraphone, preserving craft through exile and industrial change.
A woman trombonist, Yvelise Girard
Women and Brass
Jean Douay
From Paris conservatories to police bands, a young trombonist confronts isolation, scrutiny and ambition as women slowly enter the brass world.
Tower-watchmen and night-watchmen in Bohemia
Vaclav Hoza
From Hussite suspicion of musicians to tower signals over Bohemian towns, horns and trumpets shaped civic life, danger warnings and ritual memory.
Relaxation and musical performance
Michel Ricquier
Breath, fingers and muscular tension form a hidden technical chain in wind playing, as Michel Ricquier links virtuosity to bodily awareness.
The founders of the French Trumpet School
Merri Franquin, Eugène Foveau and Raymond Sabarich
Michel Laplace
Franquin, Foveau and Sabarich appear through their Paris careers, teaching legacies, recordings and role in shaping modern French trumpet playing.
Anton Hansen (1877-1947)
Part 3 – EndFather of trombone playing in Scandinavia
Per Gade
From Sibelius to Paris, Anton Hansen’s later career links Scandinavian trombone playing with French repertoire, teaching, and orchestral reform.
The Trumpet
An exhibition at the Trumpeter's Castel in Bad Säckingen
Kurt Janetzky
Natural trumpets from Verona, Nürnberg and Vienna framed a 1979 gathering in Säckingen linking Baroque practice, collecting culture and modern playing.