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2016 Update: Advertising at Horn Matters

With the 2016 New Year we are offering a new format and pricing structure for our banner ads. We have had banner ads at Horn Matters...

Silver and Gold: A Full Circle to HornPlanet.com

Planets and horns. When I was a graduate music student at Arizona State University back around 1995, I became fascinated with this new thing called...

A New Major Horn Quartet

The number of truly great horn quartet pieces can pretty much be counted on one hand ... okay, maybe two hands. Thomas Bacon wants...

Retroactive Golden Clam Awards

Angel Awards for four previously reviewed sites. At the time of this post, the Golden Clam Award is relatively new and some previously reviewed items...

Site Stats; Thanks to our Readers [2010]

This chart roughly represents direct site traffic from the past week. One thing it shows is that readers who come to Horn Matters stick...

Who Reads Horn Matters? Spring 2011 Update

In a few months, Horn Matters will hit upon its 2-year anniversary! That 2-year anniversary date is September 1st. While I don't think either John...

Introducing the Redesigned Conn 6D

Back in March (here) I posted about the new and improved Conn 8D for the 21st century. I have still yet to try one,...

Venus on a Coffee Cup

Merchandise update Some re-organizing has been done and more products have been added to the new Horn Matters Merchandise site on CafePress. So far, we have...

American Horn Quartet Interview

An inside look into a successful rarity in the chamber music world. Established in 1982 by four replanted Americans who perform and teach in Europe,...

Poll results: How do you feel about the name “French horn”?

Last Friday a Horn Matters poll asked two questions on the topic of the name of our instrument. To the question "How do you feel...