How Weather and Humidity Affect Brass Instruments
Brass instruments, featuring metal alloys in their bodies and moving parts, are sensitive to weather and moisture. These factors affect their acoustic properties and can lead to costly repairs if...
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Preparing for Brass Auditions: Essential Tips and Tools
Auditioning for a brass position can be a rather overwhelming experience for both beginners and experienced brass players, regardless of whether they’re aiming for a position in an orchestra, a...
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A Complete Guide to Protecting Your Brass Instruments During Travel
As your musical instrument is a serious financial investment, you definitely need to ensure it doesn't lose its playability during travel. Having something broken or damaged is a terrible nightmare,...
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How to Improve Your Brass Instrument Technique
Playing a brass instrument is a joyful experience, however, it may also bring some challenges. Whether you’re playing the trumpet, trombone, cornet, or the French horn, producing good sound with...
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The Best Practices for Storing and Transporting Brass Instruments
Brass instruments are essential elements of orchestras, marching bands, jazz ensembles, and even bands working in contemporary music genres. Although trumpets, trombones, flugelhorns, cornets, and French horns are known for...
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The Art of Brass Instrument Customization: Trends and Techniques
For brass musicians, it’s always important to push their artistic boundaries to stay on-trend and in demand. For this reason, they pay great attention to brass instruments customization. Fortunately, modern...
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The Future of Brass Instruments
Where the World of Brass Instruments is Heading and How KGUmusic Plans to Be a Part of That Future Brass instruments have undergone significant transformation over the past century, with...
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In our blog, we regularly publish articles about music, musical instruments and famous musicians. You can discover interesting information about playing brass and woodwind instruments, embouchure training, various mouthpieces, art of mutingtechnique, anatomy of trumpets, facts about musical instruments. In KGUmusicblog, we share tips, recommendations and guides on how to care for brass andwoodwind instruments as well as tell about cleaning products to make your care routine easier. Here, you can also find information about how to make yourinstrument customized and improve your performance. We publish articles aboutfamous brands of the instruments and share facts from biography and musiccareer of world-famous musicians, such as Arturo Sandoval, Allen Vizzutti,James Morrison, Lee Morgan, Harry James, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Bobby Shew, and many more. Our blog aims to help you draw inspiration and stay updated on recent innovations and high-quality products for brass and woodwind instruments.