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How a Teacher You’ve Never Heard of Molded a Titan of the Craft, Mendez Anecdotes, Healthy and Unhealthy Competition in Music, and Much More with David Hickman!
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How a Teacher You’ve Never Heard of Molded a Titan of the Craft, Mendez Anecdotes, Healthy and Unhealthy Competition in Music, and Much More with David Hickman!

Brass Mastery
Dec 02, 2024
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"The Story of the Trumpet, In the Words of Those Who Play It." That was the tag line for the Trumpet Dynamics podcast, on which this interview was originally published in 2021.

But the individual we're hearing from on the show today is someone who can literally tell the story of the trumpet - at least a good portion of it.

David Hickman is founder and pre…

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