SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Natural horn’
See the complete archive.Horns on the Recital I: Natural Horn
On my recital this year I wanted to play on a variety of horns and work through the story of the horn in Classical music. Pretty hard to do that without playing some natural horn! I had three natural horns available to me to try to use this year. As I noted in my most [...]
What is an Authentic Sound?
In late September I will be playing a recital on several different period horns. I will be posting on those in the coming weeks but would first like to step back and begin with a comparison of a few important construction details of the modern horn and the hand horn that relate to the bigger [...]
Auf dem Strom and the Natural Horn
People by nature try to categorize things and find notable “firsts.” One “first” often given to Schubert, incorrectly, is that Auf dem Strom (1828) is for valved horn and the first such work by a major composer. Actually, it is quite playable on natural horn. I have had a longer article on this topic posted [...]
A First Visit to the Musical Instrument Museum
On Sunday I was able with other Arizona State faculty take a special tour of the Musical Instrument Museum which just opened on April 24. This huge new museum (75,000 square feet of exhibition space!) is breathtaking and needs to be on the must see list of every musician or lover of music who visits [...]
The Beethoven 9 Controversy
In our horn repertoire class at ASU we arrived recently at the topic of Beethoven 9. The fourth horn solo has been the subject of much speculation over the years. Some of the wildest speculation is on the topic of could it possibly have been written for the valved horn? The invention of the valve [...]
Random Monday: All Show and Tell
A revamp for AZOOMA The vast majority of my spare time over the past few weeks has been devoted to a new project. Since we are all friends here, I will give you a sneak peek at it. Bear in mind that this is only about 50% done. The thing I am most proud of [...]
The Holton VD Mouthpiece
This post could also be subtitled “How Not to Market a Mouthpiece.” With the information I have at hand I can’t pin down the date but at some point in I would guess the 1960s Holton had Farkas expand beyond what became the MC mouthpiece (which was based on the original Schilke FARKAS MODEL) to [...]
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