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Product: ChopSaver Lip Balm
We have a look (and taste) of a nifty little product that will try and make you not look like a 13 stone brown trout (or Leslie Ash) after a hard nights playing or enjoying yourself too much. Sounds good eh?
Product: Have you got the horn: Besson v Yamaha
4BR looks at the two leading tenor horns on the market - the Besson Sovereign and the Yamaha Maestro to see which one comes out on top.
Product: Weril Brass Instruments: Flugel and Cornet
Peter Uppman gives a glowing report on his Weril Flugelhorn and Cornet and compares them favourably with other leading brands.
Product: The Bremner ssshhhhhhMute Practice Mute
4BRDU casts its eye (and ear and lips) over the 'ssshhhhhhMute' from Trevor Bremner - an invention for those of us who lead a very busy, busy life but still want to keep the old lip in shape.
Product: The Battle of the Cornets
4BR looks at the three leading models of cornet that are now being produced to try and capture the important and potentially lucrative young student market to find out which one is the best of the bunch from a Besson, Yamaha and a Jupiter.
Product: The Wild Thing Cornet
If you are looking for something a bit different from the usual makes in the cornet stakes, why not let your hair down and go a bit 'Wild'?
Product: Pocket Tones PT - 15
12 Note C Chromatic—vocal and instrument tuner
Produced by Farley Musical Essentials, Santa Barbara, California
Product: Besson 1000 Tenor Trombone
We asked Jonathan Pippen to have an extended look at the Besson 1000 tenor trombone - the entry level model for aspiring young players, and see what he thought about it. Here's his verdict.
Product: Edwards T350 Tenor Trombone
Chris Thomas, the Principal Trombonist of the Buy As You View Band takes a personal look at the Edwards T350 trombone and how a top qulaity product was tailored for his specific needs.
Product: Denis Wick Adjustable Eb Soprano Cornet Cup Mute
4BR casts its eye over a new mute for all those underpaid and undervalued soprano cornet players out there.
Product: The Superscope PSD300 - CD Recording System
4BR casts it's eye over the state of the art portable recording system from Superscope and Normans. It's the biz.
Product: Humes and Berg Cornet Mute Review
4BR has asked Robert Westacott, the current Principal Cornet of the Hepworth Band to "roadtest" 4 mutes from Humes and Berg.
Product: Warburton Mouthpieces
We've given seven mouthpieces from the American makers to members of the reigning British Open Champions, BAYV Cory and asked them to tell us what they thought about them.
Product: Instrument Leview: England v Japan
We put two top of the range euphoniums up against eachother in the 4BR test to find out which one is the best. This time it is the Besson Prestige against the Yamaha Custom - England versus Japan.
Seconds out...
Product: Bb Tuba Comparison
John Szkutko
Miraphone 1280 & Besson 994
9th of May 2003
Brass Music Specialists, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Product: The Sparx Cornet Mouthpiece
Produced by Ted Sparks' Musical Services
1571 Sandhurst Circle
Box 63518
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
M1V 1VO
Product: Boosey and Hawkes Sovereign BBb Bass, Model: BE994
When you are a kid in school and you express an interest in playing a musical instrument you are not really given much of a choice are you.
Product: Giving me the Horn
Yamaha Eb Tenor Horn
Model: YAH- 602S Professional
Of all the instruments in the brass band, the tenor horn is the one that seems to have been left alone the most in terms of development and change.
Product: Antoine Courtois 157 Bb Flugelhorn
The French can always be relied upon to do something a little bit different...
Product: Smith-Watkins “Professional” Bb Cornet
Dr Richard Smith and Derek Watkins are two names most brass band players don’t really know well...
Product: The New Besson "Prestige" BE2028 Cornet from Boosey and Hawkes
Review by: Roger Webster. Principal Cornet Black Dyke Band
Product: The Sopranos: France declares war on the USA
The Schilke soprano comes up against the new French model Eb Sop from Courtois - we give our verdict.
Product: Antoine Courtois 267 RV—II Euphonium
Review by: Glyn Williams. Principal Euphonium Fodens Courtois Band
The Antoine Courtois euphonium for many reasons is far the best euphonium I have ever played.
Product: Boosey & Hawkes Sovereign 944R Bb/F Trombone
by Nick Huson
Trombone players are extremely fortunate musicians nowadays...
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Vacancies
Kibworth Band
Required:. Due to work commitments, vacancies have arisen for a PRINCIPAL EUPHONIUM and a Bb BASS player to complete our band...
Contests
Delph Whit Friday Contest
Date: 24-May-2013
Venue: Gartside Street, Delph. OL3 5DW
Concerts
Lofthouse Brass Band Outwood WMC
Date: 18-May-2013
Venue: Outwood WMC, Ledger Lane, Outwood, Wakefield, WF1 2NS WF1 2NS
Professional Cards
Ian Porthouse
Cornet soloist, clinician, conductor and adjudicator











