An Inside Look at Double and Triple Tonguing

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 [...]

Last month, Horn Matters hit a new high for web site traffic and overall, our readership is trending upwards. With this in mind and looking ahead to the new year, now is a good time to look back and see what has been going on in terms of web site traffic at Horn Matters.  To accurately monitor web traffic [...]

Continuing on the topic of tonguing, we finally turn officially to staccato tonguing. There are speaking broadly two approaches to staccato presented in horn methods. One of those approaches I strongly agree with and the other I can see their point but … well, more on what I think later. First up are two big [...]