I’ve always wondered whether it was really true that not cleaning your instrument often enough could make you sick. Take a look at this NPR story and ask yourself when the last time you cleaned your horn was!

We sometimes speculate as performers about what effect the relative order of a performance may have on the outcome of a competition, audition, or jury grade. An intriguing study published by Flores and Ginsburgh in The Statistician, available online here, sheds some light on the role performance order has on the outcome of competitions. The authors [...]

The Comeback Trombonist As a trombone teacher at BYU, I work regularly—3 or 4 times a year—with players who have just taken 2 years away from their horn (for their LDS missions) and are returning to playing. After helping numerous students, consulting with other brass teachers around the state, and working through it as a [...]