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Random Monday: All Show and Tell

A revamp for AZOOMA
The vast majority of my spare time over the past few weeks has been devoted to a new project. Since we are all friends here, I will give you a sneak peek at it.

Bear in mind that this is only about 50% done. The thing I am most proud of is the [...]

Random Monday: Smiling Embouchures, Born to Run, Ghosts in the Machine

Little ones
At the Dulwich Hamlet Junior School, two school kids demonstrate the smiling embouchure. No doubt they were all giggles while getting their picture taken.

Born performers?
Even in front of millions of people, some people are able to calm themselves better than others, according to Psychology Today.

An oldie but goodie
If you haven’ read Jeffrey Lang’s article, [...]

Random Monday: Enjoying President’s Day

President’s Day
Since I am now gainfully employed at an institution of higher learning, today’s Random Monday was composed from the couch at home. :-)

New pedagogy blog
At Brass Pedagogy and Performance Practice, Roger Rocco is posting extended quotations from Arnold Jacobs (and others) and following them up with his own words.

Shrinking audiences?
Alex Ross looks at the [...]

NHR: What Happened to Horndog?

A few site visitors have alerted me that links to my PDF downloads and some other materials are broken.

These materials are actually housed at my horndoggie.com domain and I have been doing some housecleaning and consolidating of horndoggie.com. It will be down for a few weeks.

I am planning to roll out a newly revamped web [...]

Searching French Horn: Decline in Interest or Rise of Junk?

This of course may mean absolutely nothing, but according to Google Insights for Search, interest over time in the term french horn is declining in the grand scheme of Internet searches.

From my angle, a great deal of things might explain this downward trend including most of all, an exponential growth in the Internet and Internet [...]

Review: Hornplayer.net

Part 5 of 9 in "The Clam Awards" 

A golden clam for a great web site.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably have heard of Robin Moffatt’s hornplayer.net web site.
For you lowly fungi that may have indeed been living under a rock, hornplayer.net is a tremendous resource that excels in a few, very content-rich areas.

For sale
First, and probably foremost to [...]

Random Monday: Bigger Better, Getting Rusty and Desert Dreams

Bigger ain’t always better
I suppose just about every brass player at some point goes through a “bigger is better” phase and ends up going a little too far. Isn’t a bigger mouthpiece like lifting weights – it will make me stronger, right?

Dr. Mouthpiece has a few words…

Rusty musicians get a chance
The Baltimore Symphony recently allowed [...]