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The “Tut Tut” Style of Tonguing in Horn Articulation

PUBLISHED: January 12, 2009, Bruce Hembd

Clean articulations using tongue-stopping. With my very first baby steps on the French horn, my big brother gave me the Dennis Brain Mozart concertos album as a Christmas present. I wore out the vinyl on the record in a short period from repeated plays and ended up going through 3 or 4 more copies after [...]

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A Brain for Clam Control

PUBLISHED: September 18, 2008, Bruce Hembd

There is nothing new about clam-xiety. A great deal of attention has been flagged here recently on the issue of cracked notes on the horn – otherwise known as “clams.”History shows that there is nothing new about “clam anxiety” as this review from 1953 shows:To a sympathetic audience, a French-horn player is often the object [...]

Dennis Brain, 1921-57

PUBLISHED: August 31, 2007, John Ericson

Fifty years ago tomorrow Dennis Brain, the great British horn virtuoso, died in an automobile accident at the much too young age of 36. A short bio may be found in the IHS website. For me personally, a recording by Dennis Brain was the very first horn record I ever owned and was certainly a [...]

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