Random Articles

• Horns at the International Horn Competition of America: While I can’t be International Horn Competition of America for 2009, I was there in 2005. The original Horn Notes Blog was HTML; this post on the IHC...
• Horn Studio Technology Updated: For the past thirteen years I have had two main technology items I have used teaching lessons in my office: a cassette recorder and a floppy disc vers...
• What is Your Body Really Doing?: I have been thinking quite a bit about tonguing and how the body works lately, and had two most interesting experiences yesterday, seeing the X-ray vi...
• Random Monday: Mason Jones and Secret Lives: I am taking a planned blogging break for a short while.A few randoms bits before saying hasta la vista:A touching recollection of Mason Jones...
• Hornmasters: Tuckwell and Bushhouse on Horns: In this series I have titled "Hornmasters" we have focused on quotations from books on the horn published originally 25 or more years ago, books that ...
• The "Tut Tut" Style of Tonguing in Horn Articulation: Clean articulations using tongue-stopping. With my very first baby steps on the French horn, my big brother gave me the Dennis Brain Mozart concertos...
• A Horn Like Dennis Brain Played: This past week a new horn arrived in the mail which has been most interesting to play. Last summer was the first time I had ever given a single B-flat...