What was the first French horn you owned?
This past week the parents of a young student I teach decided it was time to think about buying her a horn. The dad...
More Lessons Learned from Cats
Kitteh needs a LOL cat caption.*
Other lessons?
con't from yesterday...
Metaphorically speaking:
Don't poop where you eat.
If it smells funny don't eat it - walk away.
Bury things...
The Placebo Effect and Horn Playing
The mind of the horn player can be a complicated place, and one psychological principal in particular that has always held a fascination for...
The important topic of how to refer to the 5th Symphony...
As a student I don’t recall anyone saying anything other than Shostakovich 5 in reference to the famous symphony and the famous horn excerpts...
Hornist Motivations: Bucket Lists, etc.
A post yesterday on the Hornisten der Berliner Philharmoniker Facebook page brought to mind a point worth making about motivations for horn players. The specific post...
Ask Dave: What your Horn Says about You When You are...
Often, when working on a horn the wear and tear tell me a lot about how a horn is handled, used, cared for, and...
Lessons in Vienna, part IX: Lasting Impact on a Career
This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. This is the concluding article.
Most players...
Of horns past, wistfully
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A short story from Lou "Gluefish" Wilson.
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I used to love the 6D's I played with in high school. ...
Horn study impressions after a visit to Shanghai
As I write I am back in Taiwan after a week in Shanghai. A most interesting week, which we started arranging late last summer...
Six things of value
Last week I took a road trip to New Mexico in order to take care of some business, and also to get some work...