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Articles with a focus on horns used in the 19th century and before

Crushed Tube Braces and the Natural Horn

Recently I’ve been working toward finishing a natural horn build, and worked out how to make the crushed tube braces. These are highly iconic...

Vintage Mellophone Bells — and Natural Horns?

My big idea project over winter break was to build the natural horn seen below, using a 1930 Conn mellophone bell I had found...

Revisiting an Old Huttl Horn

Back more than ten years ago I posted a short article an interesting old Huttl horn. It was one obtained from a former teacher...

Workshop presentation: the Natural Horn session

Continuing a new podcast series aimed at filling the void created by all the recent workshop cancellations due to the coronavirus situation (surely there...

Creativity, Gallay, and the natural horn

When I was working on the review of the new Jeff Agrell book on creativity I was struck by the idea that a lot...

A quick look at a vintage horn with piston valves

A topic that comes up periodically is piston valves, as in why are they not used on horns? They actually have been; a couple...

On the single F horn, part VIII: My new CD Rescued!,...

Back in 2015 I started posting articles (starting here) that lead up to this one-- the new CD is done! With special thanks to...

On the single F horn, part VII: Progress!

When I last posted about my current CD project in September (here), things seemed to be moving along well and actually they were. Then...

From the Mailbag: On that 1860 onwards CD project

Received recently was a message with questions on my CD project that I mentioned in the summer/fall. It is coming! The articles on this...

On the single F horn, part VI: First edits done, and...

When I was starting this series (here) I was really just beginning to firm up ideas toward this recording project, having had a long interest...
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