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A History of Horn Articles Online
2008 marks the tenth anniversary year for Horn Articles Online. In honor of this major anniversary I have posted an article there on the history of the site. An excerpt:
In early 1998 I first acquired a PC powerful enough to run a browser on it, prior to that I had only had E-mail access (and that only for a bit more than two years). At the time I was Third Horn in the Nashville Symphony and was enthusiastic about horn history, having recently completed a very substantial dissertation about the valved horn in early 19th century Germany and also several related articles for The Horn Call. The idea came to me that these materials could be worked into a website….
That spring I also interviewed and won the position of Assistant Professor of Horn at the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam. I contacted the person who did their website and he told me that SUNY Potsdam was well set up to host a faculty website such as I envisioned and that he used a Claris product to build theirs. So I purchased the same software and figured out how to use it to set up the first version of the site.
Horn Articles Online went live in August of 1998. Thank you to all who have visited over the years.
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