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Random Monday: More Riots, Humor and Clammy Critics

04/19/2010

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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Mid-South Horn Workshop 2010, part 2

03/25/2010

Saturday morning we were greeted by about three inches of new snow! This impacted the rest of the workshop I am sure but most of the participants who were there on Friday stuck around for at least part of the day Saturday. My day started with my “Beyond Farkas” session at 9 AM. This …

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Vienna Horns Jurassic Park

02/23/2010

Fans of the Vienna Horn should love this new video. I do! The topic is the Vienna Horn on Mellocast episode 105. I have touched on the topic previously as well, but for more check out the podcast and the website of the group in the video, Vienna Horns. And become a fan on Facebook [...]

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Random Monday: Pride, Nostalgia and Terrorism

11/23/2009

Horn pride This is one very proud horn player. More nostalgic pictures At Pamela’s Music picture archives, silly faces and a horn couple with what looks a Raoux and Vienna horn combo. An old story Horndog once heard a story long ago of New York Philharmonic hornist Bruno Jaenicke bombing on a performance of the [...]

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Findings from The Institute of Musical Acoustics

10/06/2009
This Vienna horn found on Flickr has a built in echo/stopping valve.

A recent web site find had me wanting for better skills in the German language. Fortunately, the Institute for Viennese Sound Style IWK (Musical Acoustics) site does have some English translations for most of its pages. Two specific areas that are fascinating to read present studies on the Viennese horn and in slow-motion embouchure films. [...]

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A Blood Oath to use the F Horn?

09/16/2009

The Nancy Jordan Fako book Philip Farkas & His Horn has quite a few little known facts and scenes from the career and training of the late Philip Farkas. In 1979 he was on a panel discussion at a brass event and there are a number of interesting stories and quotes from this session presented [...]

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Top Twenty Posts from the Horn Notes Blog

08/31/2009

With the launch of Horn Matters it is a great time to look back at the overall stats of the Horn Notes Blog, 2004-2009. By far the number one page in the site was the page of playing tips, which has been transferred over to Horn Matters here. After that, the top seven posts were [...]

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