First nine pages contain detailed text regarding importance of good teaching qualities, natural playing, realistic expectations, elasticity relative to vibration and tone production, overtones, pitch vs vibration, undoing faulty habits, over-blowing, airpressure, posture, diaphragm and chest expansion, etc. 40 pages. -pc
The Art of Trumpet Playing - The Thiecke Method, edited by Mel Broiles. Students, it seems, invariable do not understand the principles of warming up correctly nor practicing wisely. . . we spend an awful lot of energy playing rambunctiously and while this ebullient spirit is a good thing to have, we could direct it to better use. Instead of literally spraying the air with 10,000 notes, we could be ahead of the game by practicing a careful series of passages such as outlined by Thiecke. . . . I am delighted to welcome this new edition which is faithfully reproduced by the publisher, to the trumpet repertoire. . . Excerpt of Preface by Mel Broiles