‘Trusted Brands’ Report Update: New Results with Focus on Experience Levels

Mark K. asks: When is a dent in the tubing considered serious enough to affect the playing qualities of a horn? Does the location of the damage have any effect as well? Dave replies: Like most things in life the answer is, “well, it all depends.” As a rule of thumb (and I have seen [...]

From our colleagues in Spain and Portugal we have two new horn-related items for consideration: one is a warm-up routine and the other, a pocket reference guide. I highly recommend both and as you will see, the proof is in the pudding. Warming Up for French Horn Óscar Sala is the principal horn of the Orchestra [...]

For those following this series on tonguing closely, while many fine horn players do play with the tongue at the bottom of the teeth and near the lip opening at most or all times, Farkas was strongly against that type of approach. However, in The Art of French Horn Playing he does allow for the [...]

This is the first of several documents that will be posted. In this chapter, composite and age group results are reported. Open publication The next report will include experience level data and a whole host of cross-comparison analysis.

One recent trend in schools of music is that of requiring prescreening auditions. In my own teaching this year the exact requirement is “In order to be considered for a live, in-person audition, applicants for all doctoral performance concentrations at ASU must submit a prescreening recording by October 1 for spring admission and December 1 [...]

A question recently came in relating to “wolf” notes on the natural horn, but it also relates to valved horn as well. The question included also information that in exploring the problem note the owner had the horn and crooks cleaned well and they also made sure the horn had no unrepaired dents, but still [...]