Hornmasters on Double and Triple Tonguing. Part I: Schuller and Farkas

There are always some great high school horn players out there. They can play crazy music that goes all over the horn and play it like a machine. Secretly I envy them. But also I really don’t envy them. Why? Because I know what happens to a lot of those hot shot players. Sure, a [...]

Over a year ago the focus of an article on breaking the embouchure was an X-ray video of a horn player which showed the jaw motion clearly. But a lot more can be gleaned from this same video, which was filmed as a part of Joseph A. Meidt’s 1967 dissertation, “A Cinefluorographic Investigation of Oral [...]

Following up on the October article on horn event promotion, two of the upcoming regional horn workshops have angles on the topic of horn concertos that are also well worth highlighting. At the Southwest Horn Conference here in Arizona in January host Rose French has made a prominent element of promotion the world premier of [...]

Bruce B. asks:   Following up on your article on clanking valves. My horn (Holton 179, early 90s vintage) will clank if I am careless about adjusting the string position relative to the valve rotor.  If I adjust the string so that the finger lever is positioned close to the lead pipe, the back end [...]

Photoshop challenge At Fark.com, users were given the challenge to superimpose a Venus-brand single B-flat horn into other photos. As an avid Photoshop user myself, I can appreciate this contest. My personal favorite is rapper Flavor Flav with a French horn grill. Random pictures Daisy investigates A horn detail on Flickr Jewelry made from spare parts [...]

Staccato tonguing is a problem for many horn students. In part I of this article Farkas and Schuller laid out their approaches to teaching this, approaches that sound right on paper but in reality are confusing to many readers. The problem being that they ignore a a physiological reality of staccato on the horn that [...]