Hornmasters on Average Tonguing, Part V: Reynolds and Hill

One thing becomes pretty obvious when looking at our Postrank statistics – the articles on brass repair are very popular among Horn Matters readers. Within the Top 20 articles, five articles in the list are written by Dave Weiner. So, you’ve decided to cut your bell. Now what? An Interesting Trend: Repairs at Workshops String [...]

Barry Tuckwell in Playing the Horn is open to the idea that there is no one placement for the tongue in the mouth in articulations. The exact position of the tongue will vary from player to player. Most people will find that putting it against the hard palate for a ‘D’ sound is best, while [...]

Pictures from the big event Bruce Richards shares a lot of very nice pictures from the recent British Horn Society event at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. The majority of the events where held in the Paul Hamlyn Hall, a huge glass enclosed atrium. The acoustic was lively, to say the least, but it did [...]

Embedded in the article yesterday was one of the more recent videos of horn solos by Steve Park. It gave me a case of the game lots of horn players play, “name that horn.” In his older videos he used a Conn 8D. This video, for example (his number 1 video in his YouTube series [...]

So, you want to be famous? Our recent report - Name Recognition, Influence and Age Groups (NRIAG) - takes a glimpse into that and other interesting trends. That being said, any number of conclusions can be drawn and there is not a lot to get excited about. Conclusions from this study can be really only be looked at as [...]

It has been an active week in terms of collecting and presenting survey data. Now that some time has passed, the time seems right to close previous polls and also to put forth an opinion on the Name Recognition, Influence and Age Groups in the Online (French) Horn Community Report. Specifically I would like to address [...]