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  • The Theory Behind Stopping The Horn

    The Theory Behind Stopping The Horn

    In honor of releasing his newest CD, “No Limits”, Frank Lloyd has put together three different videos describing his playing and I thought his video about hand-stopping was quite interesting. Hand-stopping – How AND Why In the video, he describes a bit about the specific technique of hand-stopping, but he goes into quite a lot…

  • Horn-Timpani Interaction: Confirmed

    Horn-Timpani Interaction: Confirmed

    The Acoustical Society of America recently helped out horn players the world over by publishing an article in 2014 in their Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) titled: The effect of nearby timpani strokes on horn playing. This study, performed by Jer-Ming Chen, John Smith, and Joe Wolfe  from the School of Physics, The University of New South Wales…

  • Michael Thompson: Elegant Simplicity of Horn Playing

    Michael Thompson, a British horn player, is probably best known for his (along with fellow British horn player Richard Watkins) fantastic CD t, but in this Youtube video, he gives some great tips for horn players of all ages: You should definitely watch the whole video, but if you don’t have time (make time!), here…