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Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025

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 ›

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
Horn performance

The time to work on your breathing is now

One consequence of the pandemic has been practice has not been great, for a while. A consequence of that is our breathing has certainly become … Read More ›

Posted on August 5, 2021August 5, 2021

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