Brass Bulletin No. 40
IV / 1982
82
10 articles
Out of print
Brass Bulletin No. 40
IV / 1982
Contents
Nerves, Pills and Doping
Christian Baechler
Behind a debate once confined to musicians lies a wider shift in how performance anxiety, medication and professional responsibility began to be separated instead of confused.
Editorial
Jean-Pierre Mathez
As costs rose and ambitions grew, an editorial from 1983 captures the fragile balance between sustaining an international brass journal and preserving its vision.
Yamaha, an ambitious giant
Jean-Pierre Mathez
Behind the rise of a future industrial giant lies an unexpected lesson in craftsmanship, cultural exchange and the discipline that reshaped wind instrument making.
Mouthpiece pressure in Horn Playing
Graduation project in technical method
Edgar Bürger
Long before sensors entered the practice room, one horn student measured embouchure pressure by hand, challenging assumptions that still shape brass pedagogy.
Alto Trombone - New Modell
Heinrich Thein, Max Thein
A forgotten solution to Baroque virtuosity meets modern orchestral demands, where historical ideals and practical performance no longer follow the same path.
The history of the big York-Hirsbrunner Tuba
The instrument maker's point of view
Peter Hirsbrunner
A legendary orchestral tuba became the starting point for rethinking how craftsmanship, industrial methods and musical results rarely follow the same path.
Jazz and the Horn
Part 1Jeffrey Agrell
The horn was once considered incompatible with jazz until changing ideas of sound and musicians like John Graas quietly overturned that certainty.
Akim Alexeyevich Kozlov
A Trombone Artist
Anatoly Barantsev
Behind decades of orchestral excellence, one trombonist shaped a school of playing whose influence reached far beyond Leningrad and the concert hall.
Horn and Harp
Ch. Bernsdorff-Engelbrecht
Virtuoso showpieces once filled concert halls, yet today the rare pairing of horn and harp preserves a forgotten musical world shaped by performers themselves.
An Introduction to "In Tune"
the Scale of Just Intonation
Jack Holland
Long before electronic tuners, brass players faced a choice between mathematical order and acoustic truth, with consequences that still shape ensemble playing today.