As most of you know, Marcus Bonna has been the driving force in redesigning and building horn cases as we know them. Recently I received an email from him...
My daughter and I were playing some horns for her directors so they could get our opinion and hear the horns before buying them for the school. One is the...
Malcolm Arnold wrote an excellent work for Choir and Brass The Song of Freedom Op 109. It was commissioned by National School Brass band Association and...
I recently went to an intensive four day music camp and acquired a mild form of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) in my left wrist from horn playing. This is...
I am looking for help identifying a Holton case and hope that someone familiar with Holtons can help. A call to LeBlanc wasn't helpful. It is fairly new,...
I have to get a root canal next Tuesday.. ***** As a HS senior in 1974 I played the Meistersinger Prelude and Nehlybel Music for Orchestra 6 days after a...
Since I am currently involved with marching band (corps style instrumentation) at my local high schoo,l here is some information for Horn players who do this...
I would like to pose the following question to the list: What edition of Gounod's Six Melodies did James Sommerville use when he recorded his CD Chamber Music...
When I play my horn my pinky on my left hand starts hurting because of the weight on it And I think It may become a problem when I start Marching band this...
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I have had many players tell me that I should get the rights to the design of the horn that I make...
Kathy writes about her pending root canal ... I have had more than a half dozen root canals - so many that I don't really remember how many of them I've had....
I came across an old beat up looking mouthpiece that is labeled as a Stork C8. Funny thing is, it doesnt look anything like any of the stork mouthpieces Ive...
Guys (and Gals), look: We've all made our fair share of dumb comments and things that should never have been said/heard. We all joined this list for specific...
I have to get a root canal next Tuesday; I've never had one before. My husband, a Tbone player whose never even had a filling, is absolutely convinced that I...
... Sincerely, Heather<<<<<<<<< Heather, The solution is simple, DON'T START MARCHING BAND!!!!! (Actually, I started band in the 5th grade and somewhere along...
Ok, The "Fake" discussion of wording aside, I want to make something personally clear to everyone: When I responded to the Bona case discussion, I was not...
I'm out in the field in my 4th week of student teaching and just today we realized there was a problem with our 7th grade horn players. When asked to play low...
Steve Permut, one of the music catalogers at the Library of Congress (not to mention one of my oldest and best friends) is cataloging a Schott score of two...
... could anyone provide details of suppliers for mb cases. paxmans and brassarts all have a wait for delivery. i live in the uk so - local stores? Cheers>>>...
Hi group! Its my first time writing a question here so hopefully it won't be a bad one. My privite lesson teacher told me about a device that, I believe,...
My Apple Tiger computer (really my wife's) has taken to posting things twice about 5 minutes apart. Any suggestions as to why or what I can do about it Eric in...
Hi, My name is Jason Wright, principal horn of the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes in Culiacan, Mexico. Our third horn player has just left his job and...
Hi, I have a student who has been playing for a couple of years now. We have just started lessons and I have noticed that he uses to much pressure. When he ...
Ken P offered My teacher in college said something once that I always remembered: "When I hear a great player, I don't want to study with him.... I want to...
I'm getting ready to buy my first real horn, and would like some advice on this factor: The horn I buy should, ideally, be "acceptable" in as many places as ...
Has anyone heard of a hornist named Anthony Cessari? (Surname may well be spelled incorrectly.) I was just given a tape of him playing the Hindemith Sonata at...
My teacher in college said something once that I always remembered: "When I hear a great player, I don't want to study with him.... I want to study with...
