The Brass Band Forum

The mystery Russian theme you posted is familiar to many of us due to Tchaikovsky using elements of it in many of his works, including the famous 1812 Overture. He borrowed the theme from the old Russian National anthem 'God Save the Tsar' written 50 years earlier. You can hear different versions of...

Two new Mid Sussex Brass Band websites have been launched: http://www.msbb.net http://www.geocities.com/burgess_hill_brass/ One of them is the OFFICIAL site, and cost money to produce. The other is an UNOFFICIAL site which was produced while I had a stinking cold and has cost nothing but my time. Wh...

Readers please note that the link presented by FARQ has nothing to do with Brass Banding and in a fantasy monster creation site.
By clicking on the link, you make FARQ's monster 'grow in strength'. This is a sad attempt to get lots of people to visit his site.

Having clicked on the link given, I can only suspect from your user name and the fact that the redirected link has nothing to do with Brass playing (it is a link to a fantasy monster creation site), that you are using this site innappropriately.

At last I have got hold of 'The Balanced Embouchure' book. I first found this novel set of exercises on the net, but only extracts were available on Jeff Smiley's website (www.trumpetteacher.net). I got a copy from a guy in the Netherlands who Jeff put me in touch with. Some rather bizarre lip exerc...

Mid Sussex Brass band rehearse every Thursday evening at Cyprus Hall in the centre of Burgess Hill. We are always on the lookout for new players, so if you have recently moved into West Sussex and fancy a blow, come along. We perform concerts throughout the year, and have recent successes contesting...

Thanks very much for the pen in mouth tip. This I can easily exercise whilst staring into my PC at work. I will give it a go and get back to you if it improves my stamina.

Thanks for giving the time to reading and replying.

Ray

I was always taught, and all text and music books I have ever read tell you to breath using the Belly. By sticking your belly out, you lower the diaphagm (the muscle tissue which stops your lungs from falling into your bowels) allowing the lungs to expand. You can then consider yourself like a ballo...

Well, I have been busy researching embouchures on the Net. And what a lot of different ideas there are out there. Things I have found out and will be trying are: 1. The flat chin myth. You think that you should have a flat chin, tight against the gums/teeth when playing - and you suffer a lack of st...

Following up on my previous note about my stamina problems, I am currently experimenting by changing cornet mouthpiece from a Wick 2B to a Bach 7E (one of my old Soprano mouthpieces) - The change to the sound coming out of my Sovereign 928 large-bore cornet is dramatic - from the dull traditional co...

I have stamina problems when playing cornet. I am looking for any tips or techniques, mouthpiece ideas, special practices etc, or even similar case histories. When relaxed with mouth closed, my large front teeth overlap my lower teeth, with lips opening about halfway down my front teeth. To play I p...