The Benefits of Using a Flute Crown
Such small components like flute crowns cause significant changes in the musical instrument. And these changes aren’t limited to only a decorative aspect. When you incorporate any new part into...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Playing the Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn shares many similarities with the trumpet; however, it offers its unique, softer, and more expressive sound. This instrument is considered ideal for solo performances and background harmonies. If...
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The Importance of Proper Maintenance of Brass Instruments
Regardless of the brand of your brass instrument, one of the most significant aspects of keeping it in top condition visually and sonically is the proper maintenance. Poorly maintained instruments...
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Top Tips for Choosing the Right Trumpet Mouthpiece Booster
As self-improvement is an ongoing process for trumpet players, they tend to search various helpful tricks, which can help them elevate their skills and playing style. The trumpet is a...
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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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Famous Jazz Trumpet Compositions
As the instrument producing bold and impressive sound, the trumpet has always held a special place within jazz music. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that trumpets have shaped...
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The Importance of Breath Control for Brass Musicians
As brass instruments rely on airflow to produce sound, breathing is an important aspect when it comes to mastering trumpets, trombones, flugelhorns or French horns. As a natural process of...
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The Benefits of Using Leather Hand Guards for Brass Instruments
As accessories for brass instruments, leather hand guards have gained a notable popularity among musicians, especially French horn players. They successfully serve two purposes: protecting the finish of instruments, thus...
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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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Why Custom Trumpets and Flugelhorns Are Worth the Investment
Buying a custom trumpet or flugelhorn, brass musicians are making a significant financial decision. Although for many players, the price tag of custom instruments may seem challenging, the benefits they...
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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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Top 10 Trumpet Players Who Revolutionized Jazz Music
Jazz music has been created by many talented musicians, who, despite different origin and background, shared much in common such as devotion to music, determination in their goals, persistence, and...
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How to Care for Your KGUmusic Leather Accessories
You buy leather products from our website and expect them to serve you for a long time staying in trend. Since we use genuine leather, all our products are designed...
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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.