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Named Your Horn Yet?

This past week I helped my niece purchase a new flute. At the store the manager asked her if she had named her old...

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...

Mini-poll: Is it the ‘French horn’ or just a ‘Horn?’

Both John and I have written a few articles recently on the topic of the name of our instrument in the English language  -...

Why Write Articles and Put Them Online?

Weighing heavily on my mind recently has been my motivations for making public, thoughts on the French horn and the classical music business. About...

Educational disconnect

Discontent and disconnect From the president of the New England Conservatory comes a very interesting article that starts in Detroit and ends in the conservatory...

Getting bumped

A story about getting voted down a chair at the Interlochen Summer Music Camp brought back memories of my own experiences there. If only...

Imprinted on a Sound

Thanksgiving can be a time of reflection, and recently I realized a somewhat deep thought with respect to sound. Starting on a basic level, the...

Memories of Horn Calls Past: My First Issue of The Horn...

I joined the IHS when I was a senior in high school. In those days long before E-mail or Horn Matters the journal of...

What Motivates Horn Players?

The question of motivations has long been of interest to me and closely relates to topics on which Bruce has written as well. Bruce...

Of horns past, wistfully

* * * A short story from Lou "Gluefish" Wilson. * * * I used to love the 6D's I played with in high school. ...