History

A 349 year old horn made by Michael Nagel in Graz

By Friedrich Körner

Russian music and musicians before 1700

with special regard to Brass Music

Overview of Russian music and musicians before 1700, exploring early traditions, influences and the role of brass instruments.

By Walter Salmen

Rediscovered trumpet fanfares

By Friedrich Anzenberger

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

The youthful history of brass in China

By Dai Zhonghui

Past and Present of Brass in Czechoslovakia

Special Czechoslovakia

By Helena Havlikova

The Streitwieser collection of brass instruments at the Kremsegg Castle

By Friedrich Anzenberger

Drollery in the medieval representation of musical subjects

Study of medieval drolleries in musical imagery, exploring humorous and symbolic representations of musicians and instruments in Gothic art.

By Franz Georg Von Glasenapp

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

The New Langwill Index

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Five generations of mouthpiece specialists

From Höchstädt to Markneukirchen and beyond, five generations of Schmidts shaped brass mouthpiece design through craft, anatomy and evolving orchestral demands.

By Werner Christoph Schmidt

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

Joannès Rochut (1881-1952)

Trombonist of the Boston symphony Orchestra

Behind a cornerstone of trombone teaching lies Rochut’s path between Paris and Boston, lost manuscripts, orchestral life and the enduring Bordogni legacy.

By David Fetter

The Trombone in the Sacred Works of W. A. Mozart

In Mozart’s sacred music, the trombone moved beyond choral reinforcement to striking solo roles that preserve the sound and practice of eighteenth-century Salzburg.

By Benny Sluchin

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

Part 2

The 18th Century Trombone

Rumors of its Death were Premature

By J. Richard Raum

The church concert

Story of a discovery

By Johann-Michael Künne

Brass in Britain from the earliest times

By John Humphries

Part 1

Valencia: the natural horn

By Josep Antoni Alberola I Verdu

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

The posthorn of the 19th-century Royal Post Office in the service of folk music

Once a tool of postal signalling, the posthorn became part of Bavaria’s popular musical life, caught between official regulation, practical invention and folk tradition.

By Albert Hiller

Part 1

The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music

Before Louis Armstrong became the defining figure, jazz already carried competing traditions of tone, style and technique shaped by cornet players across New Orleans and beyond.

By Michel Laplace

Special Hungary

The most beautiful instruments of the National and Military Museums

Budapest’s museum collections bring together Roman and Baroque trumpets, ceremonial instruments and military imagery, preserving sounds and symbols across centuries.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

The Coiled Hunting Instrument by J. W. Haas

Bad Säckingen Trumpet Museum

A rare instrument made in 1688 blurs the boundary between horn and trumpet, while its maker’s mark raises an unresolved question about the Haas family.

By Edward H. Tarr