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BrassBulletin

International Magazine for Brass Players

Equipment

167 articles

No. 92 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

New Thein Bass Trombone Innovations

By Ben van Dijk

Equipment
No. 94 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Reflections on the tuba, teaching and music

By Roger Bobo

Equipment Teaching Repertoire
The Unusual Trumpet in the Nürnberg Transport Museum Free
No. 52 • 1985 Digitized

The Unusual Trumpet in the Nürnberg Transport Museum

A mysterious three-coil trumpet in Nuremberg defies familiar instrument types, with no maker, date or clear explanation of how it entered a postal collection.

By Albert Hiller

Equipment Historical instruments
No. 76 • 1991 Awaiting digitization

Black - Hill

Brass mouthpiece makers

By Claudio Roditi

Equipment
No. 115 • 2001 Awaiting digitization

“Duplex” instruments - yesterday and today

By Benny Sluchin

Equipment
No. 89 • 1995 Awaiting digitization

Amrein trumpets

A test

By Fritz Damrow

Equipment
No. 95 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

Eduard Kruspe

Tradition and progress: On route to the 21st century

By Christian Primus

Equipment
Member
No. 1 • 1971 Digitized

The Horn in France

Historical overview of the horn in France by Daniel Bourgue, covering instruments, makers, pedagogy and the evolution of tone and playing style.

By Daniel Bourgue

History Equipment Technique French school Sound Valves Historical instruments
The history of the big York-Hirsbrunner Tuba Member
No. 40 • 1982 Digitized

The history of the big York-Hirsbrunner Tuba

The instrument maker's point of view

A legendary orchestral tuba became the starting point for rethinking how craftsmanship, industrial methods and musical results rarely follow the same path.

By Peter Hirsbrunner

Instrument Makers Equipment Instrument making
No. 104 • 1998 Awaiting digitization

Part 2

The history of King & Benge instruments

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Report History Equipment
Inventor's corner Free
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

Inventor's corner

Shaping Your Own Mouthpiece

A tiny alteration to the mouthpiece rim challenges conventional design, seeking greater upper-lip endurance without sacrificing flexibility, attack or control.

By Ninck Blok

Equipment Technique Mouthpiece Lips Endurance
No. 93 • 1996 Awaiting digitization

A 349 year old horn made by Michael Nagel in Graz

By Friedrich Körner

History Equipment
No. 107 • 1999 Awaiting digitization

Werkstatt & Musikhaus Schagerl

At the service of brasses

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Equipment
My collection of historical brass instruments and drums Free
No. 5 • 1973 Digitized

My collection of historical brass instruments and drums

Presentation of a private collection of historical brass instruments and drums, offering insights into their construction, variety and historical context.

By Wilhelm Bernoulli

History Equipment Historical instruments
Which Horn for which Music? Free
No. 3 • 1972 Digitized

Which Horn for which Music?

Article discussing the choice of horn according to repertoire, comparing instruments, sound ideals and stylistic requirements.

By Hermann Baumann

Equipment Repertoire Historical instruments Sound Interpretation
No. 61 • 1988 Awaiting digitization

Kurt Laberer, instrument maker in Munich

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Equipment
The Trumpet in the USA Member
No. 33 • 1981 Digitized

Part 4

The Trumpet in the USA

Gadgets II

Mouthpiece backbores for piccolo and C trumpet are compared through practical performer testing, linking equipment choices to sound, volume and intonation.

By Thomas Stevens

Equipment Mouthpiece Sound Intonation
On the Crumhorn Member
No. 48 • 1984 Digitized

On the Crumhorn

From Pierre Trichet’s Traité des Instruments de Musique (c. 1640)

A seventeenth-century crumhorn leads from Roman lituus and alpine horns to reeds, finger holes and keys, exposing an unexpected family of curved instruments.

By Pierre Trichet

History Equipment Historical instruments
No. 57 • 1987 Awaiting digitization

Part 1

Doctor Mouthpiece

Resistance and the brass player

By Phyllis Stork, John Stork

Equipment
The Streitwieser Foundation Historic Trumpet Museum Free
No. 39 • 1982 Digitized

The Streitwieser Foundation Historic Trumpet Museum

A private collection built through one musician's lifelong search became an unexpected center for brass history, where every instrument carries a story beyond its display.

By Sue Scott

History Equipment Historical instruments
Manufacturers' Opinions about Brass Instruments Free
No. 38 • 1982 Digitized

Manufacturers' Opinions about Brass Instruments

Between workshop lore and acoustic certainty, brass makers’ claims expose a restless debate over metal, finish, resonance, and playing quality.

By J. M. Bowsher, P. S. Watkinson

Equipment Acoustics Instrument making Sound Intonation
No. 122 • 2003 Awaiting digitization

25 tubas... 1 cimbasso - 20 years developing tubas while playing them

By Daryl Smith

Equipment
No. 98 • 1997 Awaiting digitization

From the bombardon to the Vienna concert tuba

The Vienna tuba has been part of the "Vienna sound" and the Vienna Opera (Vienna Philharmonic) for 160 years

By Gerhard Zechmeister

History Equipment
The Euphonium in America Member
No. 35 • 1981 Digitized

The Euphonium in America

A Short History

Euphonium terminology, bore sizes, and band instrumentation shifted across Europe and America, from Sax and Conn to Gilmore, Sousa, and Fennell.

By Robert Reifsnyder

History Equipment Historical instruments Instrument making Valves
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