I’ve always been blessed and/or cursed with a desire to do things in the simplest way. In my life there…
Recently I’ve been reading a little about the old French trumpet player and pedagogue Merri Franquin. In 1912 he invented…
One or More, Big or Small, Should do it? A discussion by Richard Colquhoun about the differing attitudes towards choices…
Introduction – My Story Being a professional high-brass specialist and growing up in England with our brass band tradition I…
In recent months I have been considering writing a few books to aid my students, and anybody in the brass-playing…
One of the first posts on Trumpet Planet was an explanation of how I teach people to play major scales. It…
There are a number of discussions you can find in forums on the web and blogs of players who religiously…
In the first week of September I took a trip to the Stomvi factory in Valencia, Spain. I was long…