Top Twenty Posts from the Horn Notes Blog
With the launch of Horn Matters it is a great time to look back at the overall stats of the Horn Notes Blog, 2004-2009.
By far the number one page in the site was the page of playing tips, which has been transferred over to Horn Matters here. After that, the top seven posts were these, in order:
- A single B-flat horn FAQ
- Kruspe 1930 catalog illustrations
- A Devil to Play, but watch the plagiarism
- News of the Phoenix Symphony
- Three big elements of “the mellophone problem”
- A fingering chart for single F, double, and single Bb horn
- My rotary valve “Vienna horn”
It is a somewhat random group but reflects the top things people were looking for information on. As a final group the following were the next 13 most popular posts in order. Again, it is a rather random list that reflects some trends in searches and unique information in the site.
- Eriksson [Larsson] plays the long call
- Is the real horn the F horn?
- Caruso studies and the horn
- Nerves and bananas?
- Dukas Villanelle and the natural horn
- Highland Cathedral
- Classic mellophone
- Dissertation acknowledgments
- Fingerings and notations for the single B-flat horn
- SEHW 2009
- Wagner tuba news
- Hermann Neuling
- Hand horn technique and the Baroque horn
Some of these have been renamed slightly in the Horn Matters site; the above are all the original titles. There were at the close of the Horn Notes Blog 520 posts, and all of the above posts have been transferred over to the new site. Most will likely remain popular as the archives are very accessible in the design of the site. I welcome you to check them all over.
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