John Ericson, 02/13/2010
Hornmasters: Schuller on Mouthpieces
Gunther Schuller was certainly aware of The Art of French Horn Playing and also chose to start his 1962 publication Horn Technique with the topic of instruments and mouthpieces. On mouthpieces Farkas took the general stand that you needed to start with something middle of the road and learn to play on the equipment you [...]
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Bruce Hembd, 02/12/2010
NHR: What Happened to Horndog?
A few site visitors have alerted me that links to my PDF downloads and some other materials are broken.
These materials are actually housed at my horndoggie.com domain and I have been doing some housecleaning and consolidating of horndoggie.com. It will be down for a few weeks.
I am planning to roll out a newly revamped web [...]
Bruce Hembd, 02/12/2010
Searching French Horn: Decline in Interest or Rise of Junk?
This of course may mean absolutely nothing, but according to Google Insights for Search, interest over time in the term french horn is declining in the grand scheme of Internet searches.
From my angle, a great deal of things might explain this downward trend including most of all, an exponential growth in the Internet and Internet [...]
John Ericson, 02/11/2010
Hornmasters: Farkas on Mouthpieces
Philip Farkas chose to begin The Art of French Horn Playing with an in depth discussion of mouthpieces and horns. As this was his starting point I will also begin here an extended series of quotations and comments on a variety of topics from master horn teachers.
After a review of the elements of mouthpieces (bore, [...]
John Ericson, 02/10/2010
Why was the Valve Invented?
A question that comes up periodically is that of why was the valve invented. There is a myth that is repeated often that they were invented as a crook changing device and only later did players realize that they could use them to play chromatic passages. Myth? Yes, this is absolutely a myth. I wrote [...]
Bruce Hembd, 02/10/2010
Review: Hornplayer.net
A golden clam for a great web site.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you probably have heard of Robin Moffatt’s hornplayer.net web site.
For you lowly fungi that may have indeed been living under a rock, hornplayer.net is a tremendous resource that excels in a few, very content-rich areas.
For sale
First, and probably foremost to [...]
John Ericson, 02/09/2010
Thinking about Grad School? Think about your Music Theory Classes Now
Back on 4/14/05 I put up a short post on my original HTML blog about theory classes. As we are in the midst of auditions this post again came to mind, the target audience being younger undergrad horn majors who aspire to make it on the horn. First, the original post and some additional comments [...]
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