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• Hornmasters on Staccato, Part II: Fox, Berv, and Hill: Staccato tonguing is a problem for many horn students. In part I of this article Farkas and Schuller laid out their approaches to teaching this, appro...
• Pet Peeve: Breathing: One topic addressed often by brass teachers is breathing. Breathing is really important! Many horn players don’t breathe well.However, there is an...
• 'Radical' Embouchure Experiments, III - Lip Buzzing: When it came to lip buzzing or free buzzing I was never very convinced of how it could ever benefit my playing, or others for that matter. For years I...
• Random Monday: Praise and Criticism, Houghton Gives a Who, and Going Intergalactic: Charles Kavaloski interview In a 1997 interview, former Boston Symphony Orchestra principal horn Charles Kavalovski discusses the path that took him ...
• Why Go to Live Concerts? (II) The Loudness War: Part II: The Loudness War.In Part I, I presented questions over live concerts versus CDs, MP3s and DVDs. This post addresses one aspect of this is...
• Stop Missing Notes: I have been thinking about many topics over break. One is that of missing notes on the horn. I see three primary reasons why horn players miss notes. ...
• Preview: Six Upcoming Themes for the Horn Matters Site: Regular visitors to the Horn Matters web site may have noticed a change recently in how the site looks up top. The logo and "Horn Matters" title are m...