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The physical side of playing the horn ... beyond the embouchure

Mailbag: Tuning Various Models of Double Horns

This very good question just recently came in, from a music educator: I am seeking any resources on French horn tuning, including diagrams with slides...

Mailbag: The Topic of Contradictory Information on Playing the Horn

Recently a great, extended question came in related to playing mechanics and all the contradictory information out there. The reader wrote, … I’m finding myself...

Intonation and Vowel Shapes

Since doing the interviews with Peter Iltis (MRI horn) last summer (more here) I have been pondering a related topic, horn intonation and vowel...

Horn in E-flat Means What?

One topic that has come up for me as a question a number of times over the years is that of horn in E-flat....

On Phrasing in Mozart

Clues to look for in plotting an interpretation. In planning out a performance of a Mozart horn concerto, some theoretical knowledge of musical forms is...