"No attack may be considered successful if it is not accurate." Verne Reynolds
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- Genre:
- The Internet resource by John Ericson, with information on horn playing and horn history, covering also related instruments including the natural horn, the Wagner tuba, the tenor horn, and the mellophone.
- Hometown:
- Arizona State University
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The rumors are true! Bruce Hembd (Horndog Blog) and I have decided to take our blogs to the next level with a new online venture, Horn Matters...
In the comments to my recent post on the Reynolds Pottag Model horn I quoted what Farkas said was his goal in designing the Farkas Model horn...
I have recently been re-reading Philip Farkas & His Horn: A Happy and Worthwhile Life by Nancy Jordan Fako...
Be sure to apply early. One thing I have seen is a percentage of applicants really don’t have much developed in terms of plan B or C or D for schools and as a result get in sort of a last minute panic to apply or create alternate plans. ...
I have for years known that there is a “practice room” effect which impacts the dynamic range of horn players. That is, depending on the size and acoustic of where you practice you will feel that a different dynamic level is loud than what actually is loud. I ...
It took me several years on the faculty at ASU to even notice this horn, a Reynolds Pottag Model horn. When I noticed it what really caught my attention was that it has a Lawson FB 114 leadpipe, but still somehow ended up among the horns used in our methods classes...
Over the weekend I saw a link to a review of a new book, The Savvy Musician, and also yesterday saw that Bruce Hembd had linked to an article in the site for the book. The site actually has a whole section of free articles relating to working in the arts...
Kendall Betts in a recent post to the “Ask the Pros” section of the IHS website pointed out a great quotation on tonguing from Anton Horner from 1939. Fi...
The official results of the 2009 International Horn Competition of America, held August 13-16, 2009 on the campus of Columbus State University are now out! Professional Division: 1. Geoffrey Pilkington 2. Meredith Brown Finalists–Yoshimasa Kasahara and Gene Berger U...
Summer is a pretty down time in Arizona for concerts. I was recently looking and a concert this week by a group called French Horn Rebellion caught my attention. They are performing in Phoenix on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at the The Rhythm Room...
The 2009 International Horn Competition of the Americas is currently in progress. While I can’t be there this year, I was there in 2005. The original Horn Notes Blog was HTML; this post on the IHCA is from that original blog, dated, 8/26/05. ...
Following up on the IHS post on attacks/releases, a little more of my reasoning why I would suggest thinking of first notes as attacks. A lot of horn players are in fact on some deep level afraid of the horn, or more correctly are afraid of missing notes, especially first notes...
One thing I do is periodically look over the search terms that bring visitors to this blog. This time of year the numbers of searches for “mellophone” pick up a lot. Th...
