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Hornmasters on Opening the Corners to Breathe

Another brief topic in the embouchure chapter for Farkas in The Art of French Horn Playing was that of breathing in relation to the...

Hornmasters on Puffing the Cheeks

Next Farkas in The Art of French Horn Playing briefly presents notes on puffing out the cheeks. Conventional wisdom Farkas felt it was to be avoided...

From the Mailbag: What Horns do Professionals Play?

A question that comes in often in various ways is something along the lines of “What horns do professionals play?” Bruce Hembd and I...

Hornmasters on the Geometry of the Lips and Corners

In this series of posts I have quoted from classic horn texts following along the topics as presented in The Art of French Horn...

Hornmasters on Intonation

In this series I have generally been starting with a quote from The Art of French Horn Playing. The discussion there on tuning is...

The Deadliest Horn Part

I was recently given a copy of volume 1, number 1 (February, 1971) of The Horn Call and in it there is a most...

The Secret to the High Range: Teeth

One topic I mention to people in conversation periodically is that of trumpet players and dental modifications. I know to a horn player that...

Tuckwell’s Favorite Recordings

This article was originally part of a review of events at IHS Brisbane 2010.  The final afternoon session was Jonathan Stoneman interviewing Barry Tuckwell on...

Review: Meir Rimon, Horn of Plenty

Early in the summer we took a road trip and among the CDs I took one of the family favorites was Meir Rimon, Horn...

Technical Materials IV: Materials I am Still Looking For

First a question, did you notice any general category of technical material missing from the materials in the previous posts in this series? In the...