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Horn Sites:
embouchures.com- an excellent website for brass players suffering with embouchure problems or lip injuries.
Guide to the Brass Quintet- like the great Horn Orchestral Excerpts site, only for horn excerpts in brass quintets. Compiled by UW Alum Dr. James Boldin.
Hans Pizka's Website- Mr. Pizka is the former Principal Horn of the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra as well as a music publisher.
Horn Lists at Yahoo and Memphis.edu.
Horn Orchestral Excerpts- A audio collection of horn excerpts presented as they appear in the original parts and performed in context by various orchestras. Compiled and created by fellow UW grad Daren Robbins.
hornplanet.com- Tom Bacon's Website- a fun site with lots of interesting articles about Tom, music, and horn playing.
hornplayer.net- hornplayer.net has 600 pages of horn playing information: 300 page information archive, Free classifieds, Section listings, The Veneklasen Horn, Horn Significa by Walter Hecht
Il Club de Corno- The Italian Horn Club. Mostly in Italian with some English translations.
John Ericson's Articles Online- Horn professor at Arizona State University. This site has lots of terrific articles on natural horn, historical performance, and lots of other good stuff.
Kerry Turner's Website- composer and hornist with the American Horn Quartet, Gurzenich Orchestra of Cologne, and associate principal and third horn of the Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Pip Eastop's Website- Professor of Horn at both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.
The Symphonies of F.J. Haydn- Compiled by Louis Stout, Jr., original article from The Horn Call, April 1984. A listing of keys, number of horns, and general challenges of each symphony.
wagner-tuba.com- all about the Wagner tuba, a frequent doubling instrument of horn players.
www.hornhistory.com- features comprehensive timelines of the history of the horn and includes information on instrument development, repertoire, pedagogy and performers.
Articles about Horn Players
Horn Manufacturers:
Atkinson: (818) 526-7790
Karl Hill (Kortesmaki Horns): (616)247-1475
Leblanc musical instruments (Holton horns)
S.W. Lewis: (312) 348-1112
Patterson Hornworks- Custom modifications and repairs- 8D leadpipes, natural horn maker, mouthpieces.
- New Model GS1, based on Geyer design
Horn Mouthpieces/Mutes/Miscellaneous:
ErgoHorn- Ergonomic support device for horn players
Ion Balu- instruments, cases, and especially mutes
NEW!- IVASI- Interactive Video Audition Service International. An Inter-Active Video Guide for Orchestral Preparation
S.W. Lewis mutes: (312) 348-1112
Brass Retailers/Repairs
Chuck Ward (Chardon, OH)- (440) 286-5612 (my trusted repairman)
WindSong Press- You can order breathing devices, books about Arnold Jacobs, and other items of interest to the brass player.
TAP Music Sales- This is an extensive online catalog of recordings of interest to the brass player.
Sheet Music:
Horn Cases:
General Music Links:
Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net- A terrific site for learning basic music theory and ear training. You can also get free downloadable staff paper here. Highly recommended for music students.
The Official AFM Website- You can see current orchestral openings, updated on the 1st of each month, see ICSOM and ROPA orchestra wage scales and comparison charts, links and instructions to instrument mailing lists, find musical clip art, and search for current AFM members.
www.osborne-conant.org- Website of William Osborne and Abbie Conant. Some great articles on gender bias can be found here, including You Sound Like a Ladies’ Orchestra (Ms. Conant's story of her longtime battle to overcome gender discrimination in the Munich Philharmonic), and discussion of gender and race bias in the Vienna Philharmonic and other orchestras.
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