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A Conversation with Jeff Stockham and Tom Varner: Can We Play Both French Horn and Trumpet? (Part II)

PUBLISHED: May 22, 2011, Tom Varner

Continued from Part I, this article relates an email exchange between Tom Varner and Jeff Stockham on the topic of doubling on trumpet and French horn. * * * (Tom) Hi Jeff, Thank you for this wonderful information. It is so cool that you can do both. Whenever I tried trumpet (well, I DID play [...]

A Conversation with Jeff Stockham and Tom Varner: Can We Play Both French Horn and Trumpet? (Part I)

PUBLISHED: May 15, 2011, Tom Varner

Today Horn Matters welcomes another guest contributor, Tom Varner. * * * I have never been able to double on trumpet and horn, having played only horn since I was 9, and as an “old” 16-year-old, getting into jazz, I felt that the embouchure adjustment was too great.  The only player that I know of [...]

Transforming wood into brass; the alchemy of Rob Jones

PUBLISHED: February 2, 2011, Bruce Hembd

Recently I had some some email exchanges with Rob Jones, an award-winning artisan who sculpts in wood. In our exchange he offered some specific insight into his instrument sculptures: a French horn, a trombone and a trumpet. It was about a year-and-a-half ago that first I stumbled upon the amazing and unique wood carvings of [...]

Interview: Jazz Hornist Mark Taylor and Notes on Embouchure Dystonia

PUBLISHED: January 27, 2011, John Ericson

Last weekend I noted that in Episode 120 of The Mellocast the topic of Focal Dystonia came up with jazz hornist Mark Taylor. There he noted that he found this recent Horn Matters article and the links there helpful in sorting out some nagging embouchure problems of his own. Typically when seen in brass players [...]

A Summer to Remember—1983; An Interview with Bruce Richards

PUBLISHED: September 2, 2010, John Ericson

Bruce Richards recently wrote in his site Living the Dream of “Four Summers That Changed My Life.” I was particularly interested to read this as I was there for one of them! That summer was 1983 and we were both students of David Wakefield at the Aspen Music Festival. The previous summer I had also [...]

Year One for Horn Matters!

PUBLISHED: September 1, 2010, Bruce Hembd

Today Horn Matters reaches a major milestone. One year ago, John and I launched this site. Here are some statistics from that date to today: About 106,000 unique visitors About 35,000 are returning visitors Over 400,000 page views Average time on site = 4 minutes, 40 seconds Average pages read = 4.69 34% of visitors [...]

Update – Griffin’s ‘For You’

PUBLISHED: August 23, 2010, Bruce Hembd

We welcome a new advertiser at Horn Matters, David Griffin. His new recording is enjoying brisk sales and will be receiving a review in the November/December Fanfare magazine. Here is a sneak peek: Griffin handles the special difficulties of the low range with the assurance of, well, a good fourth-horn player, but he also soars [...]

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