Survey Results: Who’s Who in Your Horn Universe?

This past week I helped my niece purchase a new flute. At the store the manager asked her if she had named her old flute and told her to be sure to name the new one, because without a name “it won’t sing for you.” I have never been one much for naming horns, but [...]

One of the annual events I like to get to is the ASU Marching Competition. I was there last year for example and reported on the visceral experience of a line of 35 strong mellophone players. This year I was looking forward to hearing an even more visceral line of 42 mellophones, but due to [...]

Within the realm of Hollywood and famous movie actors, fame and influence boil down to a popularity contest of who is the “hottest” or most badly-behaved or most marketable at any given moment. The famed Oscar awards for example, are more about promotion and hype than an earnest recognition of talent. While the field of horn [...]

Gunther Schuller in Horn Technique has a rather different take on the tongue and tonguing than Farkas. He certainly does not agree with the up and down idea of a tongue stroke and offers an alternate approach to tonguing. The tongue during a note, i.e. after the attack, pulls back into a relatively relaxed suspended [...]

Are you are feeling a little lost in the woods with your music-making? A great way to reign yourself in is to set specific goals. Goal setting is a great tool to plan for the future, and for motivating oneself to do the necessary work in order to achieve the goal. From the Mind Tools [...]

Before (and after) winning Third Horn in Nashville in 1991 I took a lot of auditions. Early on, I owned just one horn, and in a fairly early audition I advanced and had to play a very high excerpt from Haydn 31 on a big double horn. I did not win and decided then and [...]