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  1. Rafael Mendez as YOUR Teacher

    Rafael Mendez, for those who don't know, was an amazing trumpet player, active during the 1950's through 1960's especially. Despite the outstanding brass players one can hear today, no one has quite matched Mendez's excitement and fluidity of technique. His playing is a wonderful model for any brass player.



    He was very influenced by vocalists and violinists, and wanted to master the trumpet to the point that he could express himself, even in technical passages, without being ...
  2. Learning Valve Technique

    This post discusses how to develop valve technique. It discusses physical considerations and exercises. The post is now found on the Forum at:


    this location
  3. Christmas Euphonium-Tuba Quartets Now Available for Download

    The Good Cheer collection is arranged for 2 euphoniums and 2 tubas and contains 16 popular songs including:



    Joy to the World, In the Bleak Midwinter, Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella, Go Tell It On the Mountain, On the Day Earth Shall Ring, Good King Wenceslas, Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming, Jingle Bells, Oh, Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night, The First Noel, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Good Christian Men Rejoice, I Heard the Bells, Deck the Halls, Jolly Old Saint Nicklas ...
  4. Tuba Quintet Performance Online from Prairie Home Companion

    As announced previously on this blog, the Midwinter Tuba Quintet performed on A Prairie Home Companion, October 29, 2005. The performance is online, and you can listen to the entire broadcast at:

    http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2005/10/29/



    The group played on Tishomingo Blues, Long Black Veil, the Halloween script, and the Powdermilk Biscuit Break, and member Tom McCaslin is the solo tuba during the Rhubarb script.
  5. Euphonia Review of Stewart Euphonium Stand

    The Stewart Euphonium Stand

    This article is now found on the main site:

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    Updated 11-23-2021 at 06:57 PM by davewerden

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    Euphonium-Tuba Blog , General Tuba-Euphonium Blog , Reviews
  6. Euphoniumist Lucas Spiros of the Marine Band Remembers Dr. Aaron Harris

    Aaron Harris -- Portrait Of The Euphoniumist As A Teacher



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  7. Paul Droste - Recommended Euphonium Materials

    Recommended Literature For The Euphonium



    Dr. Paul Droste, The Ohio State University



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  8. Tuba Source Book and Euphonium Source Book - Dates

    Message from R. Winston Morris:



    The GUIDE TO THE TUBA REPERTOIRE: The NEW TUBA SOURCE BOOK and the GUIDE TO THE EUPHONIUM REPERTOIRE: The EUPHONIUM SOURCE BOOK are currently in preparation at Indiana University Press in Bloomington, Indiana. The two thousand page manuscript for the TSB was submitted to IU Press on June 1st, 2005 and involves a complete update of all the literature and discography chapters of the original Tuba Source Book (IU Press, 1996). An even larger ...
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