Oddities: What a Pisser!
Building a better mousetrap?
I first found this picture at Ilkka Talvi's schmaltzuberalles.blogspot.com.
It also can be found at many other web sites. I found no...
Alphorn World Record!
Yesterday a world record was smashed! The old record was 366 alphorns, but according to Reuters, "508 players broke a record set in 2009."...
Queen of the Alphorn
More on Eliana Burki.
Not only can alphorn be cool, but it can be... uhm... sexy?
Judging by the amount of television appearances that may be...
Vio-horn? Horn-a-lin?
A true oddity.
Over at Daily Observations, Charles Noble has posted pictures and video of an odd instrument called the Stroh violin, or violinophone. It...
Count Roland’s Oliphant of Woe
Recently I was reminded of a historic medieval French poem, The Song of Roland. Key in this poem - which is one of the...
Oddities: The Bass Horn
The first in a series of oddball horns
This monstrosity - resembling a French horn on steroids - is a Bass Horn, built for the...
A variation on the blue horn
A big thanks to Facebook friend Eric Anderson for allowing me to share this nice picture. The horn is a cast aluminum reproduction...
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...
World Cup Horn: The Vuvuzela
Now that the FIFA World Cup is in full gear, the vuvuzela - pronounced voo-voo-ZAY-lah - is fair game for a Horn Matters article.
This...
A Wagner Tuba Mouthpiece
Sticking with the general topic of the article last week, the Wagner tuba, today we have an oddity, a Wagner tuba mouthpiece.
Exhibit "A" is this...