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A new personal website — is it also time for you?

For me this summer was the time to build one. Although I had one of the first personal horn websites out there -- 1998!...

Revisiting an Old Huttl Horn

Back more than ten years ago I posted a short article an interesting old Huttl horn. It was one obtained from a former teacher...

Two new podcasts looking at excerpts and a teaching method

Two podcast episodes are the result of one of my regular summer projects, which is working slowly through my old cassette tapes of performances,...

Podcast: Warming up on the F horn, getting back in shape

Recently I posted two new episodes of the Horn Notes Podcast, looking at topics of our time, getting back in shape after the pandemic...

Sabbatical Finale: Finishing the Geyer

As mentioned in the previous installment, I located (on eBay) the remains of a Geyer single F horn, minus the original bell (which had...

Horn Etudes by Female Composers

Many Horn Matters readers will be familiar with the Works with Horn by Female Composers website by Dr. Lin Foulk. If not, this is...

Sabbatical, part 8: Resurrecting a Geyer

I had some options for a final major project, and then was lucky to locate the body of a vintage Geyer single horn of...

Spun Bell? Hand-Hammered Bell?

I have mentioned hand-hammered bells a number of times in this site, but surprisingly I have never really explained what the term means. All Bells...

Revisiting the Ascending Third Valve

As part of my most recent horn building project I realized that I could set up that horn as an ascending third valve instrument. Ascending...

Sabbatical part 7: A Retro Horn in F and G?

First let me say this horn came out really well! For this project I combined most of the tubing from a vintage (probably 1960s) Mirafone...