... That's something I've been saying here for many years. Using someone else's choice of a mouthpiece seems to me like wearing shoes that are someone else's...
Jerry Houston
jerry.houston@...
Feb 1, 2009 4:07 pm
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Nancymomkids wrote: "Using this rolled underlip prohibited me from playing notes higher than 4th line D. So I was wondering how lip rolling can help in high ...
Just my input: Before I spent my money on any of these suggestions, I would read carefully the Osmun website on their Horn Mouthpieces. They also make a Bloom...
Thanks everyone for all the input. I think I'll have to do a lot more reading and searching and conctact some of the mentioned U.S. makers. I'll then just have...
Hello everyone! I am happy to announce that we now have CD recordings of many of the sessions at the 40th International Horn Symposium in Denver available for...
Any chance anyone has a CUT Laskey775G to sell? (Will accept Giardinelli threaded rim) Please respond privately. THANKS! Bill Hollin Montana [Non-text...
I am so sorry that you only recieve check and money order. For many people live outside of the US, to buy a money order is very complecate. For me,it is much...
Timothy Thompson wrote: I would add two more. Every musician should read "The Acoustical Foundations of Music" by John Backus (Norton, 1969). ... Likely to be...
With all these embouchure settings: The bottom line is: <What Works For Me>. I do a lot of lip playing. My Farkas warm-up is a forth higher. I do heavy...
... Haha, no implications meant; just trying to convey respect! Kerry it is. Thanks for the great, informative reply. Growing up playing horn in school band,...
Can payment be made by Paypal? This is so much easier than using the international money order, bank money order (that costs you $15.00 to change) or personal...
I attended the Summit Brass institute in my student days (summer of '93, I think) and remember a seminar on self-promotion for musicians taught by tubist,...
Does anyone have the first horn part for the overture to Mignon by Thomas? Even just the not-as-famous-as-it-used-to-be solo would be a great help. I have only...
I am late to the discussion, but my son had a similar issue with a a school horn. is the student playing a yamaha geyer wrap horn? my son's was a yamaha 567...
Dear Hornists, Sorry for the double post!!! The deadline for the International Horn Society Scholarship Competitions is February 20, 2009. Several of these...
Nancy Joy
njoy@...
Feb 4, 2009 12:37 am
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I've been looking around to buy a Hunting Horn mouthpiece, since the one I have for my hunting horn isn't the right type. All I could find are French sites...
The French trompe de chasse mouthpieces you're probably finding on your searches are only suitable for the real French trompe de chasse. Note: trompe, not cor....
I watched the art of brass - vienna horns youtube links posted a few days back and started to wonder... does anyone on list play a vienna horn in any US...
Lars: Some interesting questions you've posed here. I suspect one of the primary reasons the so-called Vienna horn is not in use in the U.S. is that it is...
Bingham, Richard D
richard-bingham@...
Feb 4, 2009 5:02 pm
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... Not that I know of. A friend of mine in Boston has a Vienna horn, nicely overhauled by Lowell Greer. We were playing in the same amateur orchestra for a...
I came across this on ebay yesterday. It was listed as a French Horn: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300288763784 Anyone ever heard of...
Kerry Thompson wrote: "I haven't really priced the instruments--I'm not going to buy one any time soon--but, because of the limited demand, the makers are...
... There is a BandFolio that sells sheet music, but, AFAIK, they don't make instruments. They do resell instruments, though, and it's possible their name was...
The instrument is what the Germans call ein Bariton. It is their equivalent of the euphonium, but with a lighter sound and much more agile. The Chinese make...
... Well, Klaus says it's a German Bariton, which I believe is one of the instruments we know as Saxhorns, or Flicorni in Italian--the instruments for the...