Equipment

One question I have heard in relation to custom horn makers is this; are they just assembling parts? What makes them better than just...

In this series I’ve focused on my ca. 1948 Kruspe, but I have also been able to spend some time with another, older Kruspe...

Years ago, I remember one of my teachers saying that Tuckwell sounded better on his Kruspe. By the time I heard him play live...

In several posts I have talked about how just before the pandemic I was able to obtain a low milage 1948 Kruspe horn. This...

Something you might have noticed is that in Horn Matters (and elsewhere) I have rarely written about the Vienna horn. A perennially popular topic...

At one time Kruspe style double horns (especially the Conn 8D) were a dominant horn type among professional hornists in the USA. That market...

I have mentioned hand-hammered bells a number of times in this site, but surprisingly I have never really explained what the term means. All Bells...

As part of my most recent horn building project I realized that I could set up that horn as an ascending third valve instrument. Ascending...

A Kruspe Kruspe? Any serious student of the horn today has heard of Kruspe style (or Kruspe wrap) horns, but many do not realize...

This series of articles expands on notes taken by Nicholas Smith in lessons with Roland Berger in 1977. The Conn 8D (K series) I was...