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Since the end of school I have been working on a major cleaning project at home, time to get rid of some things and get reorganized. Among the projects accomplished was reducing and repacking better some stored boxes of letters. I reduced the total volume by about a third (junk mail? cancelled checks?) but did [...]

A few months ago I helped a student with small hands put vintage dimes on their horn. What she said in a note a week later is really all that needs to be said on the topic: Just so you know, those dimes on my horn are amazing! It’s so weird to actually be able [...]

One way to know someone is by their hobbies. The name of Verne Reynolds should be familiar to Horn Matters readers, as Bruce and I both studied with him at Eastman and he was not only the long-time horn professor there but also a composer of some note. I have a few personal reflections here [...]

A curious reader asks: I have several mouthpieces and rims that need to be re-plated. Should I trust local sources such as jewelers to have it done, or should I send them to a mouthpiece maker? I hate for them to be sitting around unusable. Dave replies Your best bet is to send them to [...]

Following up on recent end of semester juries and lessons, two thoughts came to mind related to improving accuracy. 1. Get a BERP. I have not had my BERP on my horn much in the past few years and I realize that some of my students have certainly never heard of or used this device. [...]

Cleaning out some old boxes from the garage today I discovered this signature from Philip Farkas! Farkas should need no introduction to regular readers of Horn Matters. When I was a Doctoral student at Indiana University in the late 1980s he was retired but still living in Bloomington, and I took several lessons with him. [...]