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Articles by Bruce Hembd

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Embouchure Focal Dystonia

PUBLISHED: September 2, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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When the nerve connection breaks down. When I recently visited John Ericson to discuss launching this website, he was ending a lesson with a student afflicted with focal dystonia. (He has written briefly about focal dystonia before.) I had an interesting discussion with this student and it opened my eyes to this debilitating medical condition. [...]

Welcome to Horn Matters

PUBLISHED: August 30, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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As the old saying goes, “two heads are better than one.” Combining the Horn Notes Blog and Horndog Blog into one resource, Horn Matters is a new collaborative project between old colleagues — myself and John Ericson. We have carefully gone through all our old content and have done some pruning and sprucing to preserve [...]

Feed Readers and Shared Items

PUBLISHED: August 27, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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Sharing is caring. In looking for inspiration and materials to blog upon, I subscribe to a number of blogs using a feed reader. For the uninitiated, a feed reader is an aggregate means to read many blogs at once in a single place. If one were to Google on “feed reader” a variety of results [...]

Horndog Fun and Humor in Review

PUBLISHED: August 25, 2009, Bruce Hembd

An album of funnies and killing clams for fun and sport. Since as long as I can remember, I have enjoyed puns, satire and parody. “A picture can say one thousand words,” the old saying goes and in illustrated satire, it possible to make a statement without saying anything literally. With Adobe Photoshop it is [...]

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Random Monday: A New Project, Signs of Optimism, and Total Geekdom

PUBLISHED: August 24, 2009, Bruce Hembd

New horizons Over the next few weeks, details of a new and exciting collaborative project between myself and John Ericson will be revealed. I have been busy at work to get it up and running and once it is completed, it promises to be something very unique in our little universe. Stay tuned here and [...]

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Lost in Translation; Pro vs. Amateur

PUBLISHED: August 21, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Words and meaning. Certain words that once held some meaning — or that may have not had any meaning at all in the past — catch my attention now and then. Perhaps I am advancing in years or the daily exercise of blogging has brought this on. I am not sure. I often switch hit [...]

Size Matters; Big Horns, Little Hands

PUBLISHED: August 20, 2009, Bruce Hembd

From the family archive. A sister-in-law of mine once played French horn as a child. We like to swap stories now and then about her adventures in music. This old photo of her illustrates the dichotomy between the size of most children and the size of a standard French horn. Fortunately for my sister-in-law, she [...]

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Beginners, Single horns, Stories, Teachers
John Ericson & Bruce Hembd
on the French horn, brass related topics, and the field of classical music.