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Interview with Darin Sorley: The Making of a Horn Maker

Darin Sorley and I go way back to junior high school and I have embedded a few newspaper clippings in this article from that...

Survey Results: Who’s Who in Your Horn Universe?

When announcing the survey "Who's Who in Your Horn Universe?" I made a pretty grandiose statement. Spheres of influence are no longer relegated to principal...

Dennis Brain in Chicago, November 25-26, 1950; Some Notes from Dennis...

A massive new biography of the great British horn virtuoso Dennis Brain was just published this month by UNT press, Dennis Brain: A Life...

Spheres of Influence and a Survey: Have you Heard of this...

Within the realm of Hollywood and famous movie actors, fame and influence boil down to a popularity contest of who is the "hottest" or most...

Joseph Meifred and the Roots of Teaching Valved Horn Technique

One thing that has probably come through in Horn Matters is that an interest of mine is the history of how the horn has...

From the Who’s Who Survey: 14 New Comparison Charts in a...

Crunching the numbers from the report Name Recognition, Influence and Age Groups in the Online (French) Horn Community, another layer of the onion is...