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On the single F horn, part V: Will the real B....

Working on notes for this CD project I realized that the dates given in IMSLP for B. Ed. Müller can’t possibly be correct. Their...

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...

Hermann Neuling, Low Horn Master

I love the low horn etudes by Hermann Neuling; I feel certain that these made a big difference in my playing. I have had...

Music-Making and Personal Identity

In a previous article, I told the story of how I came to study with my mentor, Milan Yancich. At the time I felt broken,...

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...

Joseph Eger, Around the Horn

An excerpt from Joseph Eger's Around the Horn.  * * * The November 24, 1957 issue of the New York Times called Joseph Eger “one of the...

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...

New Information on Maxime-Alphonse

Last night I had a very pleasant surprise in my inbox. Blog reader Jay Anderson had seen my previous post on Maxime-Alphonse and got...

Xavier Reiter and Alphonse Pelletier visit the King Factory in the...

Tucked in an old copy of the Oscar Franz Method that I was given years ago was a full page advertisement for King horns....
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