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Findings from The Institute of Musical Acoustics

PUBLISHED: October 6, 2009, Bruce Hembd
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. [...]

A Blood Oath to use the F Horn?

PUBLISHED: September 16, 2009, John Ericson

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 [...]

Top Twenty Posts from the Horn Notes Blog

PUBLISHED: August 31, 2009, John Ericson

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 [...]

Adult Fans of the Single F Horn

PUBLISHED: October 30, 2008, John Ericson

I am a fan of all types of horns, and certainly single F horns and especially Vienna horns have a following. There are many reasons for this. Besides being cheap beginner instruments, there are reasons why a mature player might also want to play a single F horn. One school of thought is for example [...]

My Rotary Valve “Vienna horn”

PUBLISHED: May 18, 2008, John Ericson
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As I think back on it many summers I have had a “project” of some sort. This summer I plan to play quite a bit on my “convertible” natural horn with detachable valve section, which was made for me several years ago by Richard Seraphinoff in connection with my research into the valved horn in [...]

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