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Technical Materials III: Uncommon Materials I Teach From

First, to add one big point in the previous post in this series, I don’t teach with a one-size-fits-all routine that is the same...

Technical Materials II: Standard Materials I Teach From

As mentioned in my previous post, in terms of materials I started out as I was taught but over the years began to experiment...

Arranging chorales, like painting by numbers

For myself as a conservatory undergraduate, four-part chorale writing was slow and sometimes laborious. It was a learning curve fraught with rules and clams. Later...

Quote from Benjamin Franklin

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright. This is one good reason for visiting web sites like Horn Matters, reading horn-related texts...

The Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin and Crazy Horn Notations in Wagner

One excerpt horn players learn is the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin. I was recently working on this with a young student as...

Mailbag: “Pure” Horn Quartets for Amateurs

Among recent E-mail was a request from a member of an amateur horn quartet. They have a good library of transcriptions for quartet but...

The Lorenzo Sansone Fan Page

A hornist who was much better known 50 years ago than today is Lorenzo Sansone. I saw on the IHS Facebook page that a...

Review: Recent Innovations in Stop Mutes, and Notes on Stopping on the B-flat and...

New products are always of interest at Horn Matters. Recently I heard of a new type of stop mute made of wood, the Woodstop,...

Mean Horn Teachers who wrote Etudes

There are some really great etudes out there that have a few things in common, besides being hard. The main thing is they have...

Mr. Kopprash, Most Revered, Respected and Holy

Last week, I posted a picture on Facebook sent to me from Tina Barkan. It was a snapshot of a humorous T-shirt from the...