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Passing of Wilke Renwick, hornist and composer

If you have played in a brass quintet at all you have probably seen the name Wilke Renwick. His Dance for brass quintet is...

Silver and Gold: A Full Circle to HornPlanet.com

Planets and horns. When I was a graduate music student at Arizona State University back around 1995, I became fascinated with this new thing called...

Big News: The New 8D for the 21st Century

Conn just dropped some big news on the horn world, that they have upgraded the venerable 8D model horn, following extensive focus group testing...

Welcome to Horn Matters

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...

Retroactive Golden Clam Awards

Angel Awards for four previously reviewed sites. At the time of this post, the Golden Clam Award is relatively new and some previously reviewed items...

American Horn Quartet Interview

An inside look into a successful rarity in the chamber music world. Established in 1982 by four replanted Americans who perform and teach in Europe,...

Year One for Horn Matters!

Today Horn Matters reaches a major milestone. One year ago, John and I launched this site. Here are some statistics from that date to today: ...

Horn Matters Merchandise on CafePress

In a few weeks Horn Matters will be hitting its third-year anniversary. To celebrate this, the new University of Horn Matters, and other future projects, we have...

Introducing the Redesigned Conn 6D

Back in March (here) I posted about the new and improved Conn 8D for the 21st century. I have still yet to try one,...

Poll results: How do you feel about the name “French horn”?

Last Friday a Horn Matters poll asked two questions on the topic of the name of our instrument. To the question "How do you feel...