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Revisiting the Ascending Third Valve
As part of my most recent horn building project I realized that I could set up that horn as an ascending third valve instrument.
Ascending...
Sabbatical, part 5. A Gumpert Horn Reborn
The last big horn building project I had completed was in the 1990s when I was playing in Nashville, which is when I also...
Review: The Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece. The one everyone has been waiting for
A new product on the market, and a game changer, is the Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece.
Mellophone is, sadly, a hugely polarizing topic of the...
Bad Conventional Wisdom, part 5: The mouthpiece
If there is one single piece of advice that has held back more players, it might be this quote from the Farkas book: “If...
A brief look at Erwin Miersch, and tuning the double horn
I believe many Horn Matters readers will recognize the name of Erwin Miersch (1886-1969), as he wrote a set of Melodious Studies for French...
Horn technique book back, in a second edition
Back in 2011 I compiled a collection titled Ultimate Horn Technique. This book was a hybrid publication, presenting a variety of materials carefully selected...
Introducing the French Horn Warmup Collection
With the summer project of converting my E-book publications back to being available in print versions, there were sections of several books...
Should you practice 50% of the time with a metronome and tuner?
Metronome. Tuner. How much do you use them in your practice?
At Arizona State we have a new trumpet...
And now, A Mello Catechism, third edition
Of all my publications, I think the one that has mystified the most people has been the mellophone book. I even thought about dropping...
Creativity, Gallay, and the natural horn
When I was working on the review of the new Jeff Agrell book on creativity I was struck by the idea that a lot...