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Friedrich Gumpert, Master Teacher of the Horn

Often hornists will look back on their “genealogy” in terms of who their teachers were, the teachers of their teachers, etc. A number of...

Lips, the Mouthpiece, and Aging

In the most recent issue of The Horn Call (May, 2008) there is an interesting article by Frøydis Ree Wekre on horn playing and...

Hermann Neuling, Low Horn Master

I love the low horn etudes by Hermann Neuling; I feel certain that these made a big difference in my playing. I have had...

Brief Notes on Piston Valve Horns

An unexpected benefit of teaching at ASU is that they own a pair of piston valved horns, an early 20th century Hawkes single horn...

My Crooked Rotary Valve Horn

As I think back on it many summers I have had a “project” of some sort. This summer I plan to play quite a...

On the Classic or Concert Mellophone

Recently I was asked by a colleague, Jill Sullivan, to identify the backwards horns in some of the band photographs she had come across...

Mailbag: Hand Horn Technique and the Baroque Horn

I recently had several natural horn related questions forwarded by a blog reader, one of which was about if right hand technique was used...

Tip: Keep a Mute in Your Car

Since the time I played in The Nashville Symphony I have kept a mute in the back of the car. The idea is that if...

Yet Another “Deadly Sin” of Horn Playing

Another post from the archive, originally posted to the Horn Notes Blog on 1/9/06. A year ago I wrote of how I had enjoyed a...

“Seven Deadly Sins” of Horn Playing

Originally posted to the old HTML Horn Notes Blog on 1/10/05, this is one of my favorite posts ever. An event known as "A.I.R. Horns"...