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Breathing Experiment
Scientific studies have shown that certain aspects of breathing can be improved through respiratory training. This is the basis of one of the articles I’ve posted on breathing on this site. The underlying physiological concept is that the respiratory system contains skeletal...
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Utah Trombone Authority Clip
The Utah Trombone Authority, a quartet with 2 members of the Utah Symphony and 2 members of the BYU faculty, played a concert for the Deseret Chamber Music Series on May 15th. BYU-TV did a short review of the concert on “BYU Weekly,” a sort of week-in-review news spot. Not a ba...
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Note from Lyon Conservatoire
Just got a nice note about the trombone history timeline from Sandie Griot, a master’s student studying early music at the National Conservatoire, Lyon, France. Sandie was also interested in information about any available facsimile editions of Tuma’s Inno per il Festo di Sa...
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Breathing on Feldenkrais Method Blog
My article on improving breathing is quoted extensively, by permission, on John Tarr’s blog, The Dynamic Musician (here). The blog deals with the Feldenkrais Method, a method that appears to be somewhat akin to the Alexander Method (although I should stipulate that I know litt...
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A Wilson Gail-A
On March 27, 2009, I was fortunate to be part of a retirement concert in honor of Gail Wilson, professor of trombone at Arizona State University for 37 years, instructor at the Brevard Music Center for 20 summers, and principal trombonist with the Phoenix Symphony for 18 years. G...
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Trombone History Update
Added several new entries to the Alto Trombone Timeline, including Stössel (Germany, 1736), Eisel (Germany, 1738), Koch (Germany, 1802), Kastner (Germany, 1840), and the trombone article from the 1888 Encyclopaedia Britannica (Scotland, 1888). Also expanded the Daniel Speer e...
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More Alto Trombone History
Added several more sources to the Alto Trombone Timeline. There are now more than 50 primary sources for the alto timeline (see alto trombone bibliography). Many of them confirm that historically the alto trombone was primarily an instrument pitched in the E-flat orbit (D, E-...
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2 More Primary Sources: Digitized Festival Books from British Library
Added entries to Trombone History Timeline from 2 new primary sources: 2 festival books from the British Library. The British Library has digitized 253 Renaissance festival books (printed accounts of special occasions, often kept by courts) and made them available online here....
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Alto in E-flat: More Primary Sources
Added 8 more primary sources to the Alto Trombone Timeline, bringing the total number of primary sources for that timeline to more than 2 dozen. The sources (Gevaert, Riemann, Jadassohn, Saro, Galli, Mayerhoff, Coon, and Corder) are 19th and early 20th century orchestration tex...
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Note from Conservator at Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Just got a kind email about the site from Markus Raquet, Conservator of Musical Instruments at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and maker of historical brass instruments. The Germanisches Nationalmuseum holds an extensive collection of early trombones (see, for example, the “h...