Category Archives: Mouthpieces

Revisiting the Word “Euphonium”

Posted on June 7, 2019 by Micah Everett

In a tongue-in-cheek article posted here a few years ago I confessed to a certain dissatisfaction with the word “euphonium.” While that is the correct term for the large, conical-bored, valved brass instrument with a fundamental pitch of B-flat1, I … Continue reading →

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“A Hindemith-ey Sort of Evening:” Complete Performance Recordings

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Micah Everett

A couple of weeks ago I performed a solo recital which I entitled “A Hindemith-ey Sort of Evening.” Having been invited to perform both the trombone and tuba sonatas by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) at the National Association of College Wind … Continue reading →

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Want a Full Sound? Vibrate!

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Micah Everett

Low brass players necessarily have a great interest in learning to efficiently and effectively move air through their instruments. Tubas and bass and contrabass trombones require that their players generate tremendous airflow in order to produce and sustain a tone, … Continue reading →

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Tuba Doubling Report

Posted on May 6, 2016 by Micah Everett

Although I’ve taught applied tuba for twelve of the fifteen years that I have taught applied lessons at the university level, I have only seriously practiced the instrument and become reasonably proficient at performing on it in the past year … Continue reading →

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A Brass Professor’s Perspective on Drum and Bugle Corps

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Micah Everett

I first learned about Drum Corps International in 1993, when I was in the ninth grade. The DCI World Championships were in Jackson, Mississippi, that year, just a few miles from my hometown, so I really had no choice but … Continue reading →

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