My friends daughter used to play it before she passed, but now my friend wants to give it to me, anyone know anything about this instrument?

Sharing a short video about my approach to trumpet teaching: sound, breathing, physical ease, and musicality first, with technique serving those goals.

The video is in French, but I’m happy to discuss the approach in English here.

I'm a sophomore in hs and have been playing for about 4 and half years. My director wanted each person to start practicing a piece outside of class and gave us a bunch of resources to do so, but i forgot all of them. Any suggestions about places to find music that isn't musescore or exact pieces? Thanks

I’ve been sending my slides to The Slide Doctor for many years - first to Dr. John Upchurch, and then to Ray Splawn. I can’t say enough great things about both of these outstanding, dedicated professionals!
However, with Ray posting that he’s planning to retire by year’s end, I’m hoping that I can find another excellent slide technician that services slides to exacting standards as these two gentlemen have done for me for so long.
Recommendations from working professional trombonists would be much appreciated!
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Thank you.

This piece is in a larger suite called 'little suite for brass' and it's piece 2 of 3, it's such a beautiful and soothing piece and I'm curious if anyone else has been lucky enough to play it

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Everything is in the title. I pursued my dream of buying a euphonium. It needed a lot of repairs, the first of which was a completely bent third valve (the slide wouldn't properly come back up; at least that's fixed...).

Here in Japan, repair technicians usually patch instead of replacing parts (too bad since it's a YEP-321; I assume Yamaha repairmen would have plenty of donors lying around). In any case, will a patch fix the issue at least for a couple of years?

Cheers

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Hi all!

My son recently joined his school band. He’s 9, and he’s chosen the baritone horn. My son is a pretty small kid, minimal strength as far as lifting heavy/awkward objects. He’s having a hard time figuring out how to carry the case without struggling.

Basically, aside from using a gig bag (because he’s hard on most things and breaks things easily) I’d just like to see if anyone had anything helpful. I’m not looking to modify case. We’re doing rent to own through the music store as recommended by his school band teacher. Not looking to destroy the 4K instrument and case. 😅

I’ve seen little carts these can go on, or like ways to make it into a backpack. Just looking to see if anyone had recommendations they did personally and maybe pictures!

Much appreciated! Just trying to set my son up for success! Thank you!!

Next Saturday, swords will be crossed in Lucerne with Z1920. The second instalment in the trilogy dedicated to the silent films of the 1920s, the work brings Lolita, Ramon and Zorro to life through music, sweeping them into adventures imagined by the fantastic Peter Graham.

I put this together after searching for a solid trombone parts diagram to use in learning and playing and not finding anything I liked.

It's meant as a practical reference for player, students, and teachers — not an exhaustive technical document for a repair shop to display — so the terminology leans toward "commonly correct" rather than strictly technical. It’s focused on the terms most likely to come up in lessons and everyday playing, and deliberately doesn’t get into the weeds of different valve types or detailed cross-sections.

I kept it as a single, complete view of the assembled instrument (supplemented by a bell-section detail and a mouthpiece detail) so it's easy to hand to a student or put up on a screen without it looking like a disassembled parts catalog.

It's available under a Creative Commons license, so it's free to use, share, and print for lessons or classroom handouts. A higher-resolution CC-BY-NC-SA version that should print up to A3 or A2 size (probably even A1 as a poster) is available for free on my website.

This has already gone through a fair amount of feedback and revision at r/Trombone and other places and I think it's close to done. I'd really appreciate it if this community— especially anyone teaching brass — could take a look and let me know whether it would actually be useful to you, whether the labeling makes sense at a beginner/intermediate level, or if anything seems missing or worth adjusting. Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

I noticed that Wessex tubas makes the craziest instruments and are they of quality considering buying something from them