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Review: Steve Park on YouTube
A YouTube channel of interest.
With a little creativity and technology it is possible to make some very nice presentations and put them online for...
Choosing a French Horn Mouthpiece (III): Weight, Plating and Shopping Tips
Other choices, a general checklist and a few related links.
In addition to rim and underparts, other mouthpiece options include plating, weight, and shank seating.
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Choosing a French Horn Mouthpiece (II): Cup, Throat and Bore
In Part I, the main focus was on the mouthpiece parts closest to the embouchure.
For this reason alone, it seems entirely logical that the...
Choosing a French Horn Mouthpiece (I): The Basic Parts
Part I: The Rim and Preliminary Thoughts
Part II: Cup, Throat and Bore
Part III: Weight, Plating and Shopping Tips
For the past decade...
Review: A Resource For Playing Horn in Brass Quintet
Another excellent online resource.
One great thing about the Internet is that scholarly materials once hidden away in dusty library shelves have become more readily...
Top 10 Ways to Provoke a Horn-Geek
How to get a horn geek riled up.
Horn aficionados and geeks as a general rule, are a pretty easy-going breed. But if we get...
The Space Between the Notes
Improvement -- a process of subtraction.
Music is the space between the notes.
This well-known quotation attributed to the Impressionist composer Claude Debussy can have many...
In the Horn Shop with Masters at Horn Craft
A look behind-the-scenes.
If I were to pick an different career for a different lifetime I would strongly consider brass instrument manufacturing and repair. The...
Two Embouchures
Random comparison.
While watching the old Anvil Films movie of Dennis Brain playing the Beethoven Op. 17, something seemed a bit familiar.
While the angles of...
Mr. Kopprash, Most Revered, Respected and Holy
Last week, I posted a picture on Facebook sent to me from Tina Barkan. It was a snapshot of a humorous T-shirt from the...