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The Heldenhorn11 days ago

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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A Look at a Bopp Horn36 days ago

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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Fundamentals 23. Coordination: successfully combining above elements47 days ago

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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The Curious Case of Etude Number 10 and More2 months ago

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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Fundamentals 22. Jazz horn: concepts, techniques2 months ago

We are up to number 22 in a list of 25 fundamentals of horn playing, following the list in the Douglas Hill book. Number 22 is another of the topics that may not seem quite as fundamental as some, the topic of jazz horn. Where I started By high school I was listening to jazz […]

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