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Hello,
Six months after launching the Brass Bulletin Archive, we're delighted to have reached an important milestone: one third of the complete Brass Bulletin collection is now available online.
Here are five newly added articles I hope you'll enjoy discovering. You'll find many more on the Archive.
Warm regards,
Jeremy
Recently added articles
Trumpet • Technique
The attack
By Louis Davidson
Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.
(BB 41, 1983)
Horn • Encounters
Julius Watkins
By Jeffrey Agrell
A pioneering career, landmark recordings and collaborations with jazz legends gave the French horn a place it had never occupied before.
(BB 41, 1983)
Trombone • History
Pyotr Naumovich Volkov (1877-1933) • First trombone professor at St. Petersburg Conservatory
By Viktor Sumerkin
From imperial St. Petersburg to Soviet Leningrad, Volkov shaped a distinctive Russian trombone tradition through performance, teaching and generations of pupils.
(BB 37, 1982)
Tuba • Instrument Makers
The history of the big York-Hirsbrunner Tuba • The instrument maker's point of view
By Peter Hirsbrunner
A legendary orchestral tuba became the starting point for rethinking how craftsmanship, industrial methods and musical results rarely follow the same path.
(BB 40, 1982)
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