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A New Resource: A Dissertation on the Brahms Trio

Joshua Garrett has kindly offered Horn Matters a copy of his dissertation "The Brahms Horn Trio: Background and Analysis for Performers." It is a comprehensive...

A Horn Like Dennis Brain Played

This past week a new horn arrived in the mail which has been most interesting to play. Last summer was the first time I...

Dvorak on the Natural Horn? No.

Julia Rose in a very recent post on a classical concert she performed with the Columbus Symphony brought up the topic of Dvorak and...

Allen Valves: A Rotary Club of Its Own

Square peg meets round hole. In a visit to the web site of the National Music Museum I discovered a rather unusual valve configuration that...

French Horn Patents

Fun with Google Patent Search. I spent a good several hours marveling at Google Patent Search engine recently. It is an amazing resource - its...

Muting in Beethoven

A gem for woodwind octet with odd mute changes. John Ericson recently wrote a post at the Horn Notes Blog about playing a stopped...

Mailbag: Hand Horn Technique and the Baroque Horn

I recently had several natural horn related questions forwarded by a blog reader, one of which was about if right hand technique was used...

Siegfried Horn Call – The Back Story to a Famous Horn...

A while ago, I had the pleasure to perform the complete Ring cycle several times with Arizona Opera, with Joe Berger as principal horn....

The Horn of Franz Strauss

As I mentioned to the horn repertoire class today at Arizona State, it is not very widely known but the horn used by the...