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Five Tips for Staying Focused When Freaking Out in College

I have fairly fond memories of my experiences in both graduate and undergraduate school. That being said I did have the occasional odd and...

Hornmasters on How Much to Practice

There are a variety of approaches to the question of how much to practice on a French horn. Practicing to your breaking point is not...

Hornmasters: Tips on How to Practice

Several sources have some specific tips on how to practice the horn. Practice the extremes An initial suggestion made by Farkas in The Art of French...

Hornmasters: More Recent Thoughts on the Warm-Up

While to this point this series has focused on older published sources on the horn, at this time we turn a corner toward three...

Memories of Horn Calls Past: My First Issue of The Horn Call, Part II–Reports...

Part one of this series touched on the 1979 Annual Horn Workshop but there were several reports in the October, 1979 issue of The...

What is an Authentic Sound?

In late September I will be playing a recital on several different period horns. I will be posting on those in the coming weeks...

Hornmasters on Puffing the Cheeks

Next Farkas in The Art of French Horn Playing briefly presents notes on puffing out the cheeks. Conventional wisdom Farkas felt it was to be avoided...

Hornmasters: Tuckwell on Holding the Horn and Left Hand Position

In our series of quotes from classic horn texts we will close out this part of the series with Barry Tuckwell. On playing standing and...

Pondering the Warm-Up, and Learning Double Tonguing of Scales and Arpeggios

The following post is a combination of two posts from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog dating to 11/23/04 and 11/30/04. Recently on the horn...

Dream Big, Think Small

In regard to a previous post - "Dreams and Goals; Music Performance and Music Education" - I have gotten some feedback though private emails,...