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Posted on August 24, 2025August 24, 2025

Mouthpiece Update for August 2025

I’ll soon be posting an article on Horn Matters related to this post, but wanted to update here as well with more specific information of … Read More ›

News

Remembering Horn Articles Online, and digging into some editing

I reported this over in Horn Matters as well (here), but, in short, my original Horn Articles Online website is now dead. Well, not completely … Read More ›

Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025
Horn building

Rebuilding a Vienna Horn Crook

For a while now I’ve had a Vienna horn borrowed locally. I have wanted to enjoy playing it, but the fact was it was kind … Read More ›

Posted on December 17, 2023December 19, 2023
Horn building

Completed: Classical Orchestra Horn after Courtois

After the spring semester I was finally able to finish the last planned elements of the horn I’ve been building using parts obtained from Rick … Read More ›

Posted on May 21, 2023May 21, 2023
Recordings

Remembering an Anastasia Session, 25 Years Later

25 years ago this month. I played my last session in Nashville, not long before moving to Potsdam to start a new career teaching full … Read More ›

Posted on August 6, 2022August 6, 2022
Horn building

Building a Courtois copy natural horn

I’ve had a couple people ask how this build is going. I started working in earnest on this after the semester was over and got … Read More ›

Posted on June 16, 2022May 21, 2023
Horn building

Mistakes? I’ve made a few 

With school out I’ve been working on another horn building project. Elements of it are done, and others are getting close.   This morning was … Read More ›

Posted on June 1, 2022June 1, 2022
Horn building

Mellophone to Natural Horn Conversion 2.0

My original horn conversion project was turning a vintage concert mellophone into a rather nice natural horn, a Doctoral project done under the guidance of … Read More ›

Posted on April 5, 2022April 5, 2022
Publications

Top 10 for 2021, in book sales

Working on taxes I also looked at the sales statistics of my 21 publications that are sold on Amazon. What would you guess generated the … Read More ›

Posted on March 10, 2022March 10, 2022
Deep thoughts

On starting year 30 as a professional hornist

The fall semester of 2021 marks the beginning of my 21st year at Arizona State, my 25th year of full-time teaching, and my 30th year … Read More ›

Posted on August 10, 2021

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