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Stopped Horn Notations in Academic Festival Overture by Brahms

One major work with notations in the horn part that have confused many are the unusual stopped horn notations in the Academic Festival Overture...

From the Mailbag: Is Using the Assistant Horn Cheating?

I had a question come in recently on the use of the assistant first horn. I actually wrote a full article on this topic...

Conductors Say the Darndest Things II

The great American horn teacher Philip Farkas had a story about water in the horn that he loved to tell. Nancy Fako relates the...

Photogenic natural horn with 4 couplers stacked up (does not work that way!)

In certain books on the horn you will find photos of a horn built on the same general system as this one below. It is...

Farkas on Lip “Curling”

I spent the summer looking at many different books on horn playing in depth. Farkas in print was not into the whole concept of...

Bruce and John FAQ

So, you have started a huge new horn website! How did you meet? We met in real life in 1984. That year Bruce was a...

Farkas and the Art of Marketing II

In the comments to my recent post on the Reynolds Pottag Model horn (seen below) I quoted what Farkas said was his goal in...

Farkas and the Art of Marketing I

I have recently been re-reading Philip Farkas & His Horn: A Happy and Worthwhile Life by Nancy Jordan Fako. One thing in this book...

Review: The Reynolds Pottag Model Horn

It took me several years on the faculty at ASU to even notice this horn, a Reynolds Pottag Model horn. When I noticed it...

Before Farkas: Anton Horner on Tonguing

Kendall Betts in a recent post to the “Ask the Pros” section of the IHS website pointed out a great quotation on tonguing from...