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Here's where you'll find articles about instruments, players, playing, and links to interesting websites.

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• Equipment Articles

  • Trumpet

    • Mouthpipes Used on Bach C Trumpets
    • Schilke Trumpet Mouthpiece Diagrams
    • Olds Central  Everything you wanted to know about Olds instruments
       

  • Horn

    • Osmun Horn Mouthpieces
    • Converting Your Horn to Detachable Bell
    • French Horn Mouthpieces, by Lawson Brass Instruments
    • Maintaining Rotary Valves
    • Stringing Rotary Valves
    • Why Do My Valves Click?
       

  • Engelbert Schmid Horn Articles

    • Unique Design Features of Engelbert Schmid Horns

    • Bells Available for Schmid Horns

    • Recommended Water Key Locations

    • Recommended Slide Positions

    • Maintenance of Schmid Horns

    • Why Phil Myers Plays a Schmid

    • Why Play a horn in Eb-alto

    • Nickel Free Horns

    • Stop Arms Used on Schmid Horns

    • String or Mechanical Action?

    • Engelbert Schmid Natural Horns

    • Schmid Wagner Tubas
       

  • Tuba/Euphonium
     

    • The Difference Between a Baritone and a Euphonium

  • All Brass
     

    • How to Select a Brass Mouthpiece, by Renold O. Schilke
    • Mouthpiece Bore Size Chart
    • Hetman Lubricants Application Guide
       

• Articles about Playing
  

• Trumpet

  • Adjusting Valve Cap Tension explains how trumpeters can fine-tune their instruments for optimum response.
     

• Horn

  • Brahms Horn Trio: Background and Analysis for Performers, by Joshua Garrett
  • Holding the Instrument, Chapter 14 of The Horn, the horn, by Richard Merewether
  • Holding the Instrument, part 2, Left Hand Position, by Bob Ashworth
  • Tuning the Double Horn, by Phillip Farkas
  • Why I Play a Schmid Horn, by Philip Myers
  • Free Lancing in the Big Apple, by Jeff Lang
  • Stopping―Why the Pitch Shift?
     

• Trombone

  • We Need a Man for Solo Trombone, the story of Abby Conant and the Vienna
     Philharmonic

• Biographies and Articles about Players
   

  • Hornists
     

    • Philip Myers, New York Philharmonic
    • Phil Myers: "Practice Attacks" (CNN interview)
    • Alan Spanjer, New York Philharmonic
    • Eric Ralske, New York Philharmonic
    • Howard Wall, New York Philharmonic
    • James Sommerville, Boston Symphony Orchestra
    • Michael Thompson
    • Tom Varner
    • Richard Watkins
    • Interview with Gail Williams, reprinted from International Musician, October, 2001
    • Interview with James Chambers, by Jeff Silberschlag
    • Radovan Vlatkovic
       

  • Trombonists

    • Carsten Svanberg
    • Abby Conant
       

  • Other

    • Interview with Bob Osmun, President of Osmun Music
      

• Links to Our Favorite Websites
   

  • Trumpet

    • Dave's Bach Trumpet Page has a very interesting section on trumpet construction as well as a lot of historical information about Bach instruments.
    • Richard Watson -One of our regular customers. A top call orchestra trumpeter in Boston.
    • Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project, Schomburg Center of the New York Public Library.  Video/Audio Clips of some of our century's greatest jazzmen (and women).  Slow to download and worth every second.
    • O.J.'s Trumpet Page
    • Trent Austin -one of our regular customers and a great jazz trumpeter
    • The R. Jones Trumpet Page - one of the best music resources on the web
    • Ron Romm
    • TPIN the Trumpet Player's International Network.
    • The Trumpeter's Homepage
    • The Vintage Cornet  Information about vintage cornets and their restoration
    
     

  • Horn

    • Andrew Clark, One of the finest natural horn players out there. Here him play his Schmid Lorenz copy horn.
    • Orchestral Horn Excerpts, created by Darren Robbins, combines viewable and printable reproductions of forty-six familiar excerpts with several recordings of each excerpt played by important orchestras. It's an invaluable way to compare styles of different great players.
    • Formally known as "The Horn Player's Resources Pages", the site comprises six main sections, each of which would make a respectable site on its own. All six combined create a mega-site, which no horn player should miss out on!
    • Horn Articles Online, maintained by Dr. John Ericson, Arizona State University School of Music.  A large and well written collection of articles covering all aspects of horns and horn-playing.
    • The Horn Players FAQ, maintained by IHS computer guru Ron Boerger.
    • The Italian Horn Website in Italian and English.
    • The Tom Bacon Home Page . Tom Bacon is a fabulous player and teacher at Arizona State University. He's put up a great page.
    • The Hans Pizka Home Page. Now get it direct from the source. In addition to being a full time hornist and horn authority, Hans also runs a lively music and CD publishing business. (HPE CD's are available in the US from Osmun Music.)
    • Schloss Kremsegg Castle  An Austrian museum of brass instruments, with antiques, replicates, concerts, items of historical significance, and more.  A very interesting site for anyone interested in brass instruments, especially horns.
    • The Pip Eastop Home Page Pip's a busy freelancer on the London scene as well as a professor at both the Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music.
    • Dick's Home Page  A collection of "strange and wonderful" horns, with pictures and detailed descriptions.
    • French Horn Resource Page  tons of general horn information
    • TPW HornPage  A very informative site, including a technical discussion of the horn as an instrument.
    • Toru Ikeno's Horn Page  Great page for info about getting and learning the horn.
    • Bob Marlatt's Page  Very nice page, featuring a nice horn collection.
    • Angie's Page  Interesting personal page, with a section devoted to horn and music links.
       

  • Trombone

    • Milt Stevens, National Symphony principal trombone
    • Abby Conant
    • Apollo Brass-Brian Kay
    • Brass Player's Resource
    • The Doug Yeo Home Page. Doug Yeo, the Boston Symphony's bass trombonist has created one of the most popular brass sites on the web.
    • The Trombone Home Page. Naturally lots of good trombone stuff. In addition, this page has links all over the place and subscription info for the various brass oriented mailing lists.
    • Joe Alessi's Slide Area
    • The Online Trombone Journal is updated Monthly.  It features scholarly articles about the trombone as well as many useful links.
    • Trombone Page of the World has email addresses for over two thousand trombonists world-wide.
    • Dale Sorensen's Trombone Page  Dale Sorensen is the Principal Trombonist with the Windsor Symphony, Second Trombonist with the New Hamilton Orchestra and Symphony Nova Scotia, and a member of the Maritime Brass.
    • Orchestral Trombone Sections  Lists all of the members of the trombone sections in America's orchestras.
    • Trombone Shrine  A fun site about the trombone.
       

  • Tuba/Euphonium

    • Das Euph The Euphonium Resource Site
    • The Euphonium and Baritone Hompage
    • Rick's Tuba Page
    • Waldo's Tribute to the Wonderful Tuba
    • Jim Self's Tuba Page. Jim is LA's top tubist.
    • David Werden Publications  David Werden was the Euphonium soloist of the US Coast Guard Band for twenty years.  His site has information about his publications as well as a wealth of articles and links about the euphonium.
    • Tuba Christmas
       

  • Manufacturers

    • Gebr. Alexander for info on the instruments and an interesting history of the company.
    • Finke Johannes Finke is a small maker of very high-quality instruments with an emphasis on tone quality and light weight.
    • Getzen Makers of trumpets and trombones.
    • Meister Hans Hoyer fine horns from Germany
    • Engelbert Schmid Horns, made in Germany in small numbers, by a top German hornist.  Among the very finest instruments available.
       

  • Loyalist Sites

    • The Bach Trumpet Loyalist
    • The Conn Loyalist 
    • Olds Central
    • The Schilke Loyalist 
    • Selmer Paris Central
       

  • Quintet/Small Ensemble

    • Synergy Brass Quintet
    • The Empire Brass Quintet
    • Jubilate Brass
• Epsilon Brass Quintet
• Majestic Brass
• Apollo Brass
   

• Orchestra

  • ICSOM, the International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • New York Philharmonic
  • Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
     

• Miscellaneous

  • Copyright Resource Library
  • Robert King Music Sales is the leading mail-order supplier of music for brass.  Their new site has all the ordering information you need to get anything in print for brass instruments.
  • The Brass Bulletin. From Switzerland, Europe's leading brass publication has ceased production after thirty-two years. These are the archives..
  • Bayreuth Festspiele Want to know about Wagner? It's all here, including an incredible number of links to other Wagner sites. (now in English)
  • The Shrine to Music Museum and the Margaret Downie Banks Home Page offer a wealth of information about the history of musical instruments. Ms. Banks is an authority on the history of the Conn company.
  • Early Wind Instruments
     

• Associations

  • International Trumpet Guild
  • The International Horn Society
  • The British Horn Society Home Page . Lots of useful stuff from the UK, including The Horn Magazine, one of the most interesting publications of its kind.
  • The Los Angeles Horn Club is the premier organization of its kind.
  • The International Trombone Association
  • International Tuba-Euphonium Association

• Bob's Personal Choice (an eclectic collection of miscellaneous stuff)

  • The Museum of Bad Art  "art too bad to be ignored "
  • Hosaphone™ Headquarters. Build your own trumpet and save big $$$.
  • Urban Legends and Folklore  Who's that guy in the back seat?

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