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Brass Bulletin x International Trombone Association
Through this collaboration, the International Trombone Association introduces its members to the Brass Bulletin Digital Archive, with a dedicated subscription option created for the trombone community.
Why It Matters to Trombonists
For more than three decades, Brass Bulletin documented the evolution of trombone performance, teaching, repertoire, instrument making and orchestral traditions through contributions from leading performers, educators and researchers.
Today, that material is being digitized, structured and made searchable for a new generation of musicians.
Trombone articles
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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.
Anton Hansen (1877-1947) – Part 3, End
Father of trombone playing in Scandinavia
By Per Gade
From Sibelius to Paris, Anton Hansen’s later career links Scandinavian trombone playing with French repertoire, teaching, and orchestral reform.
A woman trombonist, Yvelise Girard
Women and Brass
By Jean Douay
From Paris conservatories to police bands, a young trombonist confronts isolation, scrutiny and ambition as women slowly enter the brass world.
The alto trombone and contemporary concepts of trombone timbre
By William E. Runyan
Alto trombone timbre from Vienna to Brahms, orchestral balance, period practice, and why bright brass sounds gradually disappeared.
Anton Hansen (1877-1947) – Part 2
Father of trombone playing in Scandinavia
By Per Gade
Berlin, Leipzig and Copenhagen diary pages show Hansen testing slide-trombone ideals against Weschke, orchestral practice and Carl Nielsen.
Anton Hansen (1877-1947) – Part 1
Father of trombone playing in Scandinavia
By Per Gade
From Nørrebro cafés to the Royal Orchestra, Anton Hansen’s early years reveal the shift from valve to slide trombone in Scandinavian orchestras.
Interview with Miles Anderson
By Jean-Pierre Mathez
Jean-Pierre Mathez traces Miles Anderson’s path from early training to orchestral and freelance work, expanding on the tension between livelihood and artistic pursuit.
The classical solo concerto for trombone and its interpreters in the 19th century
By Werner Beyer
From Queisser to Ferdinand David: the rise—and disappearance—of the classical trombone concerto in the 19th century reveals a forgotten golden age of virtuosity.
The contrabass trombone – Part 2, End
Picture and sketches, taking particularly into account the construction principles (1973)
By Heinrich Thein
Inside the workshop of innovation: Heinrich Thein reveals how rethinking every detail—from valves to bell—transforms the contrabass trombone into a modern orchestral instrument