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Archibald Noodlefish on Listening to Live Concerts and Pre-Recorded Music

PUBLISHED: November 11, 2011, Archibald Noodlefish

Being the busy working professional that I am I hardly have the time or energy to write articles for Horn Matters. I am much too busy out in the real world teaching, producing and playing music, but on this one topic I feel that I must speak out. Long ago, my great teacher Professor J. [...]

Re-Writing Bach: The Trio from Brandenburg Concerto No. 1

PUBLISHED: October 5, 2011, Bruce Hembd

I have been working on the final Trio section from Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, not for a specific performance but rather as an exercise for technical improvement in tonguing, the high range and endurance. While working on this excerpt I remembered a neat performance trick – one that can be very helpful to a first [...]

How to Annoy and Alienate Colleagues in 11 Easy Steps!

PUBLISHED: March 23, 2011, Archibald Noodlefish
The Jaded Clam Award

Quirky personalities are more-or-less a fact of life in the classical music profession. For non-musicians and students, it can almost seem like a dirty secret when the dramas behind-the-scenes are discovered. A prevailing thought among spectators is that because music is performed so harmoniously, professional musicians must all get along like peas in a pod. [...]

Bad Audition=Quit Horn?

PUBLISHED: August 12, 2010, John Ericson

A post from the archive of the original HTML Horn Notes Blog dated 9/4/06. Every fine horn player has experienced some poor audition results. These experiences are an essential part of how we learn to play a good audition, both by learning how to better prepare the elements we can control and recognizing better the [...]

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Video Game: Zombie Clams from Outer Space!

PUBLISHED: June 2, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Do you like classic video games? Do horn clams scare you? Oh yeah? …how about Outer Space Zombie Clams?! If so, you might enjoy this old-style shooter game I developed a while ago. Use the keyboard to play: arrow direction keys = move up, down and side-to-side your horn cannon space bar = fire your [...]

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Op Ed: A License to Clam

PUBLISHED: April 19, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Some critics like to tease that horn players “flub.” The Vienna Phil.’s sound was extraordinary, of course: These guys never let you down there. And their execution was generally at a high level. How odd, I often think, not to hear horns flubbing. How odd to hear them play their notes sure-footedly. Don’t …

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Random Monday: More Riots, Humor and Clammy Critics

PUBLISHED: April 19, 2010, Bruce Hembd

A lot of items have come onto the radar this week, so tomorrow look for a bonus Random Tuesday post. UPDATE: added a screenshot of the Watt Stand. Name this bell accessory A video loaded in the cycle of videos in the upper left column (pictured at lower right), has me wondering about the added [...]

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