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The Mouthpiece Wheel of Doom
The topic of Episode 94 of The Mellocast is the Mouthpiece Wheel of Doom. It is a term jazz hornist Mark Taylor uses relating...
Two Embouchures
Random comparison.
While watching the old Anvil Films movie of Dennis Brain playing the Beethoven Op. 17, something seemed a bit familiar.
While the angles of...
Humor: Looks Like…
Random acts of humor.
Horn virtuoso and conductor Anthony Halstead** and character actor Donald Pleasence* - separated at birth? Long-lost brothers?
*best known as the quintessentially...
On Plagiarism: Copy, Paste and Steal (I)
Piracy and plagiarism in our wired culture.
A few years back I taught a humanities class for a while at a local community college. It...
This is Where I Blow; A WWII Story
Random nostalgia.
Surfing the 'net, I found an old black-and-white photo with the title "US serviceman gives a French horn lesson." A U.S. serviceman is...
Don’t Miss! Two Practical Tips to Improve Accuracy of Entrances
This is another post from the archive, dated 7/12/2004, when I was performing Principal Horn and teaching at the Brevard Music Center in North...
4 Issues that point to a composer not knowing how to write for the...
As horn players we see a lot of horn parts written by composers who don’t really know how to write for the horn. First,...
“Seven Deadly Sins” of Horn Playing
Originally posted to the old HTML Horn Notes Blog on 1/10/05, this is one of my favorite posts ever.
An event known as "A.I.R. Horns"...
Going with the Ensemble Flow
Don't fight the group karma: the job demands alertness, flexibility and a little bit of political savvy.
On the job, the main responsibilities of the...
Farkas on Stagefright (and more)
In the world of horn there have been few that made as much impact as Philip Farkas (1914-1992). The Art of French Horn Playing...