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A Few Audition Tips

Audition observations from a committee member. Recently I had the pleasure of being on an audition committee for the Arizona Opera. It has been a...

Humor: Never Sit in Front of Trumpets

A new inductee into the "Hubie" Hall of Fame. UPDATE: Sept. 9, 2009. Link updated. This site has been around for a while, but I discovered...

Exercise PDF: Slurpies

Smoothing out the bumps. Practicing in extremes - going "outside of the lines" - can help to sharpen up a problem area so that it...

This is Where I Blow; A WWII Story

Random nostalgia. Surfing the 'net, I found an old black-and-white photo with the title "US serviceman gives a French horn lesson." A U.S. serviceman is...

Top Ten: Favorite Collections

Reviews of some of my favorite things. Over the years, a handful of French horn music collections and editions have gotten my repeated attention; these...

Exercise: Expansion Flow Study

A long tone in disguise. This download is a PDF version of a long tone exercise which expands on a concept illustrated in a previous...

Review: Horn Crush

They call them "dent bags" for a reason. Having crushed my own horn once long ago, Lisa Emrich's story "My Horn, The Metal Taco" struck...

Music and Passion

A talk by Benjamin Zander. A few months ago, my wife was treated to a presentation by Benjamin Zander. She was so impressed that it...

Transposition Tricks: Old vs. New Notation

A detailed description of bass clef notation for French horn. Since posting a blog on concert-pitch bass clef transposition, I have been getting a lot...

Oddities: What a Pisser!

Building a better mousetrap? I first found this picture at Ilkka Talvi's schmaltzuberalles.blogspot.com. It also can be found at many other web sites. I found no...