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Welcome to the Brass Bulletin Archive
Through this collaboration, the International Trombone Association and the Brass Bulletin Digital Archive are working together to help preserve and share an important part of trombone history. ITA members receive access to a growing collection of articles, interviews, research, and historical documents from more than three decades of Brass Bulletin.
As part of this partnership, members benefit from exclusive subscription rates of CHF 4.00 per month (regularly CHF 5.00) or CHF 40.00 per year (regularly CHF 50.00).
An Archive in Progress
The Brass Bulletin Digital Archive launched in February 2026 with the goal of preserving and making searchable the complete collection of Brass Bulletin, originally published between 1971 and 2003.
The project involves scanning, OCR processing, text correction, metadata indexing, and the reconstruction of thousands of pages into a modern searchable archive. Beyond the article texts themselves, original photographs, illustrations, music examples, historical documents, and editorial materials are carefully preserved as part of the archive experience.
Articles are available in their original publication languages, including English, French, and German. Beginning with Issue No. 62, the archive also includes Italian and Spanish editions, reflecting the international character of Brass Bulletin and its readership.
More than 120 issues and over 1,200 articles will ultimately be included. The digitization effort is expected to continue through 2028, with new articles added every week as the archive grows issue by issue.
The continued digitization of the archive is made possible through the support of subscribers, partner organizations, and members of the international brass community. Thank you for helping preserve and share this remarkable body of knowledge for future generations of musicians.
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Archive status
Updated 23 Aug 2026
New articles are digitized every week.
Trombone articles
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Science and Technology in Trombone Teaching
By Sergej Gorovoj
What if tone production depended less on instinct than on understanding how the instrument, the lips and the air function as one interconnected system?
Akim Alexeyevich Kozlov
A Trombone Artist
By Anatoly Barantsev
Behind decades of orchestral excellence, one trombonist shaped a school of playing whose influence reached far beyond Leningrad and the concert hall.
Alto Trombone - New Modell
By 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.
Thoughts on the Bass Trombone
By Jean Gotthold
Long before modern standards took hold, bass trombones existed in many forms, raising questions that still shape orchestral writing and performance today.
Vladislav Mykhaylovich Blazhevich (1881-1942)
Trombonist, Composer and Teacher
By Viktor Sumerkin
From village band to the Moscow Conservatoire and the Bolshoi, a lifelong commitment to performance, teaching and wind music shaped Soviet trombone tradition.
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.
The trombone: changing times, changing slide positions
By Howard Weiner
From Virgiliano to Praetorius and Eisel, early sources reshape long-held assumptions about trombone tuning, slide positions and historical playing practice.
Viktor Venglowski
Musician and Teacher
By Sergej Gorovoj
From the Leningrad Philharmonic to the Conservatoire, one trombonist shaped repertoire, ensembles and generations of players across the Soviet Union.
The contrabass sackbut
a modern copy
By Richard Lister
A reconstructed 17th-century contrabass sackbut revives forgotten low brass practice, from Venetian polychoral music to modern performance challenges.
A Trombone Martyr
Auguste Léonard de la Tuilerie
By Benny Sluchin
A Paris apothecary turned trombone evangelist challenges 19th-century musical habits, imagining the slide trombone as the future voice of harmony.
The double-slide trombone
museum-piece with a future?
By Boris G. Manzora
As virtuosity reshaped 20th-century brass playing, Boris G. Manzora argued that the forgotten double-slide trombone could redefine technique and range.
Benny Sluchin
Portrait in brief
By Jean-Pierre Mathez
Between Paris, Cologne and Tel Aviv, Benny Sluchin brings mathematics, acoustics and contemporary performance into the brass world.