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Vintage Brass Instrument: The Solo Alto

I have long been interested in horn history. My original website is well known for its horn history resources and I am sure has...

An Important Tip from Quantz on Cadenzas

Students often struggle a bit with their cadenzas. With juries (performance exams) coming for many horn students the next two weeks, the following quote...

A blast from the past, a brief look at the G Mellophone Bugle

An element of the mellophone puzzle, and understanding where we are today with the modern marching mello, is the G mellophone bugle. For those that...

Background on the new publication, Playing the Wagner Tuba

When I started thinking out of the box after turning in my tenure file and considered launching a publishing venture I really got going...

Background on the new publication, Playing High Horn

Over the summer of 2007 I worked very hard toward the completion of four book projects and launching a new publishing venture, Horn Notes...

Two Ways to Warm-up, and a Great Quote from John Barrows

Today in our horn pedagogy class the topic was the warm-up. One aspect of this that is little commented upon is there are essentially...

8 Quick Tips to Improve Your Accuracy on French Horn

There are many ways to work on accuracy, but these eight are all important elements to focus upon. 1. Buzz more often on the mouthpiece...

Background on editing The Brass Gym for Horn

Very early in my tenure at ASU I realized that Sam Pilafian was accomplishing some very interesting things with his breathing/warm-up class and warm-up...

Thoughts on Playing a Double Wagner Tuba

I am playing extra horn this week with The Phoenix Symphony, seventh horn and Wagner tuba on The Rite of Spring. It has made...

Remembering Milan Yancich (1921-2007)

Over the weekend I learned of the passing on Friday of Milan Yancich at the age of 86. A longtime faculty member at Eastman,...