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Something I say to students surprisingly often is how once you work out E major real well everything is easier. As I say that, I’m thinking not only of the patterns in my technique book, but more specifically Pares Scales #99. I mentioned in a very recent article how I was working to perform the […]

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One topic that comes up often in lessons is that of dynamics in ensembles, especially large ensembles. While in typical etudes the dynamics are pretty clear cut, dynamics in reality are a moving target that change greatly with the musical context. Two sets of dynamics Farkas must also have experienced this same conversation in multiple […]

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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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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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