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One of the original, iconic double horn designs was developed by German horn maker C. F. Schmidt in the early 20th century. The use of a piston valve for the thumb valve allows for a unique — and in ways probably ideal — airflow through the horn. But also that same thumb valve is the […]


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The Heldenhorn

As Horn Matters author Bruce Hembd and I were both students at Eastman at the same time, we both had contact with a specific model of horn, made by Alexander in (mostly) the 1970s for Milan Yancich, one of the two teachers at Eastman at the time. The model was the Heldenhorn, which was a […]


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Regular readers already know I have an interest in horns from the 19th century, especially from Germany. When I saw this horn up for sale, I recognized the maker, Bopp, from a similar horn in the Dick Martz website. From that I knew that it could be a quality instrument, as Max Hess, Principal Horn […]


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As we get closer to the end of the list of 25 fundamentals given by Douglas Hill in his book, number 23 is an incredibly important one: coordination. Not having studied with Hill, my first thought was this had to do with passage work, coordinating fingers and tongue, etc. But there is a larger, deeper […]


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Many thanks to a recent post on Horn People for pointing out a great Verne Reynolds quote. It’s from page 71 of The Horn Handbook, and is in reference to Maxime-Alphonse book 6. Makes for a great meme (below), I can totally imagine Mr. Reynolds saying this (he was my teacher for my Masters degree), […]


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