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Hornmasters on Inhalation

Inhalation is a big topic. Before turning to this installment of our series of articles of quotations from classic horn methods, I would like...

A Horn Maker on Mouthpieces

How you perceive the playing qualities of a horn you are testing will be impacted quite a bit by what horn you have been...

35 Mellophones=Huge Sound

When I can make it I like to get to ASU Band Day for a portion of the event. It is a marching band...

Memories of Horn Calls Past: My First Issue of The Horn Call, Part II–Reports...

Part one of this series touched on the 1979 Annual Horn Workshop but there were several reports in the October, 1979 issue of The...

Memories of Horn Calls Past: My First Issue of The Horn Call, Part I—Notes...

I joined the IHS when I was a senior in high school. In those days long before E-mail or Horn Matters the journal of...

Choosing the Right School

It is that time of year again; people are looking for schools for horn study. Last spring I had a specific question come in...

How Much Should an Advanced Horn Player Practice?

From the archive of the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, dated 10/1/04, this article outlines a general approach to practice. At the time at...

Understanding Stopped Horn

Tucked away in a corner of Horn Articles Online for many years was an article on Understanding Stopped and Muted Horn and Right-Hand Position....

Hornmasters: Brophy on Buzzing

William R. Brophy wrote Technical Studies for Solving Special Problems on the Horn (1977) during his tenure as Professor of Horn at Ohio University....

The Retronome

In my office you will find me using on a daily basis this “antique” metronome which students I have heard sometimes refer to as...