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

• Equipment Articles

  • Trumpet

    • Mouthpipes Used on Bach C Trumpets
      

  • Horn

    • Osmun Horn Mouthpieces
    • Converting Your Horn to Detachable Bell
  • 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
      
       

• Articles about Playing

  • 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
      
      

• Biographies and Articles about Players

  • Hornists
    

    • New York Philharmonic Horns
• Boston Symphony Orchestra Horns
• Michael Thompson
• Richard Watkins
• Interview with Gail Williams, reprinted from International Musician, October, 2001
• Interview with James Chambers, by Jeff Silberschlag
• Radovan Vlatkovic
• We Need a Man for Solo Trombone, the story of Abby Conant and the Vienna
   Philharmonic
  



• 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.
  • O.J.'s Trumpet Page
  • The R. Jones Trumpet Page - one of the best music resources on the web
  • TPIN the Trumpet Player's International Network.
  • The Vintage Cornet  Information about vintage cornets and their restoration
  
   

  • 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.
  • Horn Central gathers together an impressive amount of information about horns, playing, teaching, music, all presented in a clear and visually appealing format.
  • Formally known as "The Horn Player's Resources Pages", this 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 Italian Horn Club 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

• 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.
  • 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.
    
    

• Tuba/Euphonium

  • The Euphonium and Baritone Hompage
  • Rick's Tuba Page
  • 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.
  • Build-a-Bach Choose from dozens of options to customize a Bach Bb or c trumpet and have it shipped direct from the factory.
  • 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

  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • New York Philharmonic
  • Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
     

• Miscellaneous

  • Hollywood Studio Symphony  This website list a large number of Hollywood film scores along with the players. Fascinating.
  • Rent a Set of Wagner Tuben Erin Vang has a set of Alexander tuben available for rental in Oakland, CA.
  • 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.
     

• Associations

  • International Trumpet Guild
  • The International Horn Society
  • The British Horn Society . Lots of useful stuff from the UK, including The Horn Magazine, one of the most interesting publications of its kind.
  • International Tuba-Euphonium Association

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