Bumps, clicks, bubbles, and other nuisances of horn playing

I have Gunther Schuller to thank. Before his visit to ASU in 2004, although I intuitively knew some setups were stiffer in the slots between notes – “bumps” that impacted trills especially – I had not thought about the situation and topic nearly as deeply as he had (and the mouthpiece I used was relatively […]

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