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Talking To Your Family About Mouthpieces This Thanksgiving

You want me to stop missing notes? I need a new mouthpiece I’ve been feeling down about the election and need a new mouthpiece to...

Going Dutch, and Furry Footstools

Going Dutch Over the past month, I have been involved in a production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. The staging was a bit unusual in that the...

A Farkas Signature

Cleaning out some old boxes from the garage today I discovered this signature from Philip Farkas! Farkas should need no introduction to regular readers of...

Friday Funny: 12 of the Most Irritating Sounds on the Planet

Being a musician I am perhaps a bit too overly sensitive to the sounds and noises of modern life when I am out in public....

That Lennon horn picture

Thanks to C. Scott Smith I have some background on a picture that I own, of John Lennon tooting on a horn. That horn was...

A new horn for Ewan

A new horn for Ewan Among horn players, this video of a young Ewan McGregor playing a French horn is fairly well-known. According to Daily Record,...

Humor: 14 Famous Musicians and their Odd Doppelgängers

In the previous article from Wednesday, "Symmetry and Balance: 3 Reasons to Not Worry about an Off-Center Embouchure" some liberty was taken with the...

Hoffnung Horn Comedy

The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra began as a book of humorous illustrations by Gerard Hoffnung and it eventually inspired a music festival that featured comical performances...

Kopprasch 18. Vivace. Cruel Joke?

Following up on the Golden Clam for the Boldin Kopprasch project, one thing I would think many of you out there have noticed is the markings in...

Where the Wild Things Are? In the Closet…

It may be just a week or it may be as long as a month, but that time of year is here. It is...