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- Canada's newest premier brass and percussion ensemble.
- E-mail brass-request@gly.fsu.edu, stating that you want to subscribe to the Brass Mailing List. You can specify digest (1 message/day) or individual messages (many messages/day). The list maintainer is Ted Zateslo at the above address.
- Send a message containing the line "subscribe tubaeuph" (no quotes) to listproc@u.washington.edu. The list maintainer is Joseph Dyvig, bssplyr@u.washington.edu.
- Send a one line message (no subject) To: majordomo@parnassus.dana.edu with the message: "subscribe tpin [or, tpin-digest]" (no quotes) The list maintaner is Michael Anderson. The web site is http://trumpet.dana.edu/~trumpet.
Send a one line message (no subject:) to: listproc@lists.missouri.edu with the message: "sub trombone-L Your Name" (no quotes)
- (community wind band & orchestras) Visit the website at: http://www.egroups.com/group/community-music Home page: http://boerger.org/c-m
- Send a message to: listserver@smsltd.demon.co.uk containing the text: "subscribe brass-band Your Name" (no quotes)
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- Repairs and sells used instruments.
- Includes a listing of officers, MPA Sales Agency List, a copyright resource center, and more.
- Free MIDI piano and organ accompaniment files.
- Sheet music for a variety of instruments.
- For notating your own sheet music and midi.
- K-12, commercial music sites, and midi resources.
- A way of learning how you can get rid of harmful tension in your body.
- Lots of interesting information on musical ergonomy.
- Unspoken Jazz etiquitte!
- Jazz Webring with 18 websites and growing.
- Emphasis on Jazz Trumpet.
- Cryogenic Processing for Brass Musical Instruments. Seriously!!!
- Highly recommended sites for all brass players. Be prepared to spend a long time here; lots of links!
- Dedicated to baritone, euphonium, and horn players; bashes all other wind instruments!
- A thorough analysis of the difference between a baritone and euphonium. Very interesting!
- A ring of websites dedicated to the musical instrument.
- Created and maintained by a high school band teacher. Tons of resources!
- Excellent Euphonium reference.
- Includes solos and links.
- Includes euphonium links.
- Share your grief over misconceptions. "This ain't no mini-tuba!"
- Articles, schools, music, and links.
- Pictures, sounds, theory, solos, and history.
- Horn information and transposition chart.
- Collection of the most humorous letters sent to the Horn List.
- Information and fingering charts.
- Includes tips on intonation, transposing, and more.
- Screw-in mouthpieces.
- Horn player's website with articles and links.
- Articles, links, and mailing lists.
- News, music, links, and fingering charts.
- Includes orchestral MIDIs and MIDI accompaniment for Horn players.
- Online museum, trivia, study guide, and links.
- The homepage of a jazz French horn player.
- The homepage of a jazz French horn player.
- Jokes, scales, maintenance, history, playing guide, pictures, and links!
- Fingerings, equipment, literature, and "research abstracts."
- Bulletin board, jokes, links, and makes.
- Website of bass trombonist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- "This page contains information about the sadly neglected F bass trombone…"
- Covering the trombone from medieval to present times.
- Events, jobs, competitions, and news.
- Information on jazz trombonists and links.
- Articles and more!
- Interview with Fred Wesley.
- Links and history of jazz trombone.
- Biography, articles, links, pictures.
- Includes contacts, employment, ensembles, links, news, and universities!
- Top ten reasons you should play the trombone.
- The psychology of the trombone player.
- "The online magazine of the British Trombone Society."
- "An Alto and Tenor Trombone Resource."
- The S. E. Shires Company was founded in 1995 for the sole purpose of building custom trombones of unparalleled professional quality.
- "A National Treasure on the Campus of the University of South Dakota."
- The history and development of the 19th-century cornet.
- by Charles Decker, Trumpet Professor, Tennessee Technological University
- A non-profit organization, founded in 1974 to promote communications among trumpet players around the world and to improve the artistic level of performance, teaching, and literature associated with the trumpet.
- Articles, mailing list, and daily cartoon.
- Sound files, mailing list, and biographies.
- Excellent resource with some tasteful humour.
- Includes "some very helpful and interesting pedagogy (theories about physiological and technical aspects of trumpet playing) from some of the worlds greatest teachers to date."
- (HUGE) Instrument gallery, fingering charts, playing tips, free sheet music, maintenance tips, players, dictionary, history, and "An Idiot's Musical Dictionary."
- Video clinic, methods, online lessons, auction, interviews, reviews, articles, and more!
- The "Complete Guide to Trumpet," how brass instruments work, beginner resources, history of the trumpet, brass concepts, music, and equipment.
- Biography of the cornet player.
- Louis Armstrong's 50 Hot Choruses for Cornet
- A guide to jazz trumpet players.
- "A miscellany of references to the clarinet and saxophone." Includes comic strips and quotes, very interesting!
- Also includess flute, oboe, bassoon, and french horn MIDI resources.
- Experimental musical instruments.
- For flute, piccolo, recorder, saxophone, and more.
- Clarinet discussion board.
- Features articles on clarinet playing, study, and general music.
- Excellent collection of clarinet events and articles!
- With links to other clarinet webpages.
- An essay on the subject of pitched clarinets.
- Includes articles and information on breathing, posture, sound, and troubleshooting.
- With a "Flute Fitness" Video?
- A few quick tips.
- Careers, equipment, links, fingerings, tips, and trill chart.
- Just links so far, still under construction.
- "A collection of over 1,000 links of interests for flutists of all ages and skill levels."
- Information of famous flutists.
- Fighting nervousness, improving playing, terms, scales, fingerings, breaking habits, pictures, links, and humour.
- Careers, history, makers, and links.
- With a vibrato forum and articles.
- Webring of 120+ flute websites.
- Methods, pedagogy, solo literature, and more.
- Products, flute care, FAQ.
- "FLUTEWISE ONLINE strives to keep the flute player amused, entertained and informed. On this web site you will find competitions, information, resources and lots more. FLUTEWISE ONLINE is also updated very frequently, with new articles being added all the time, there is always reason to revisit us."
- Articles, makers, and resources. (What's a bassflute!?)
- A comprehensive timeline discussing the evolution of the modern flute.
- List of flute websites.
- Flute books; soprano, alto, bass, contra bass, and octobass flute; jazz flute, contemporary flute, avant-garde, blues, and charanga flute.
- Flautists, flute jokes, music horroscopes and quotes, fingering charts, and MIDIs.
- Tips on how to make and play a flute
- Lots of information and links for flute makes, teaching tips, performance health, flute/picc fingerings, and repertoire.
- Flautist and composer.
- "Collection of information for piccolo players and aficionados."
- Piccolo, alto, bass, octobass flutes; hints, tips, FAQ, links.
- History of the flute.
- A quarterly package of news and information to connect and inform everyone interested in the history of the flute and its music.
- Custom gold and platinum flutes!
- Headjoint specialist.
- Flute sheet music and accessories.
- Gifts for the enthusiastic flutist.
- Flute sheet music and accessories.
- "America's Flute Specialty House."
- "The world's largest exclusive manufacturer of fine flutes and piccolos," with history, and teacher's aid.
- Perform on a work of art.
- “Europe's largest online supplier of flutes and flute music.”
- Instruments, cases and covers, training, books, tapes, and gifts.
- Official Miyazawa Flutes and Hamming Piccolos
- Bamboo flutes and bamboo headjoints for Boehm flutes and alto flutes.
- Fine quality hand-made flutes and headjoints in sterling silver, karat gold and platinum.
- Handmade flutes by William Miller.
- "Creators of the finest flutes in the world."
- "a non-profit educational corporation which is now in its 17th year of serving flutists, flute teachers, and the people who love them."
- Holds annual festivals and competitions.
- Information on these common Indian flutes.
- Includes songs and MIDIs.
- Chinese bamboo flutes.
- Native North American flutes.
- References on making your own.
- Bamboo flutes.
- Make your own flute.
- Japanese Bamboo Flutes.
- Everything you need, lots of info!
- The University of Carolina String Project; provides accessible string education for students.
- Setting up, fundamentals, posture, right and left hand placement, uses, etc.
- A huge list of Double Bass stores in several countries.
- Oh gosh! Defeats the purpose of this little section, doesn't it?
- Huge resources for bass players of all genres.
- Magazine for teachers, students, players, and makers.
- With some 3,000 members in over 40 countries
- Information and pictures.
- A cool site with resources on a myriad of percussion instruments. Includes instruction and online lessons.
- A site on Latin music. Includes tabs for Latin rhythms.
- Drum set tabs for popular music.
- A good resource for starting to learn drum set. Includes tips and advice on purchasing drums as well as online lessons.
- Lots of information and music for classical percussion. Includes technique drills for drums and timpani.
- More free online lessons for drum set. Very comprehensive.
- A lot of information for drum set technique and rudiments.
- Playing and practicing tips and more.
- “An educational outreach activity of the West Mesa Music Teachers Association.”
- Movement Retraining is the Key to Recovery, by Thomas Mark