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Kruspe Dreaming, III: A Very Big (and Early) Kruspe

In this series I’ve focused on my ca. 1948 Kruspe, but I have also been able to spend some time with another, older Kruspe...

Kruspe Dreaming II: The Tuckwell Kruspe

Years ago, I remember one of my teachers saying that Tuckwell sounded better on his Kruspe. By the time I heard him play live...

Kruspe Dreaming, part I: A Concert on a Kruspe

In several posts I have talked about how just before the pandemic I was able to obtain a low milage 1948 Kruspe horn. This...

On Vienna horns and the important topic of wires

Something you might have noticed is that in Horn Matters (and elsewhere) I have rarely written about the Vienna horn. A perennially popular topic...

Could the Kruspe style horn come back?

At one time Kruspe style double horns (especially the Conn 8D) were a dominant horn type among professional hornists in the USA. That market...

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...

A closer look at a vintage “Kruspe Kruspe”

A Kruspe Kruspe? Any serious student of the horn today has heard of Kruspe style (or Kruspe wrap) horns, but many do not realize...

Lessons in Vienna, part VIII: Playing the Vienna horn

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. The Conn 8D (K series) I was...

Workshop presentation: Kruspe, Geyer, and more

With the corona virus canceling so many horn events this spring, this is the first of a series of articles with podcasts, on topics...