HISTORICAL INSTRUMENT COLUMN: Looking at the Past: Why Play Historical Brass?
Of course you would expect the Historical Instruments column to look at the past, but the past stretches from the moment that you’ve read the…
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HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: Looking at the Past II: “God Save Us from the Ancient Serpent”
Historical Performance Standards: Low Brass Was Berlioz unique in having “modern” standards? That he was not a lone voice is demonstrated in many of the…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: LOOKING AT THE PAST III: “Travelling into the Past”
The ophicleide was still in use in some orchestras as late as the end of the nineteenth century, little more than a hundred years ago…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: The Case of the Mysterious F: A Detective Story by Clifford Bevan
The most recent discussion in the Historical Instruments Column of the English F tuba was in 2008. The context was an investigation into Vaughan Williams’s…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: Explorations in 3D Printing: Copying a Serpent
An earlier version of this article appeared in the February 2016 edition of the Galpin Society Newsletter and the Spring 2016 issue of The Serpent Newsletter. The finished…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: The Dawn of Exploration for the English Bass Horn? by Craig Kridel
New interest is emerging for instruments that have been a mere afterthought to the church serpent and ophicleide-namely, bass horns. The editors of second edition…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENT COLUMN: Part 1: “A true contrabass wind instrument”
Inventions: Need or Greed? Though not generally accepted as being so important as “No Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENT COLUMN: Inventions: Need or Greed? Part 2: “The right method of chanting and singing”
Following eleven years spent contesting legal cases, Adolphe Sax, bankrupted three times, died aged eighty in 1894. One of the Parisian instrument makers who had…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: C.G. Conn Tuba Designs from 1880-1940: An Investigation of Early Tuba Product Lines and Construction Techniques
The 2016 Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research In 2010, ITEA established the Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research, a biennial program seeking…
HISTORICAL INSTRUMENTS: Forty Years On (Clifford Bevan)
Forty years on, growing older and older, Shorter in wind, as in memory long. Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder, What will it…
