This horn popped up on eBay, very reasonably priced, and very much caught my attention. And I purchased it. It had clearly been dropped at … Read More ›
As I get going with lessons (I always offer a lesson to students before the semester, to prepare the seating audition music) I have two … Read More ›
Back almost a year ago I posted about results of some fairly extensive mouthpiece testing (here). And here we are now, July 4 and my … Read More ›
Back not long ago — about a month and a half ago — I posted (here) about how I had completed a natural horn body … Read More ›
Among the final projects completed were these two crooks and a coupler. The larger crook is an Eb crook, the smaller one is a F … Read More ›
Things moved pretty quickly at the end of this build. After putting on a new mouthpipe, cleaning everything, and getting all the parts back together, … Read More ›
Another of my current projects not yet posted about is the Mirafone Kruspe. I’ve made a lot of progress on this one. My goal This … Read More ›
First, it’s worth looking back at the “before” post to see the transformation. My original idea was to rebuild this early valved horn, missing many … Read More ›
As mentioned in the prior post on this horn, I changed directions, what was going to be a small bore valved horn project is now … Read More ›
The first project done in my push before the summer closes down my shop is what I’m calling the “French” natural horn. The only marking … Read More ›