Horn Thoughts

One of my passions is music, I play the french horn in a number of amateur ensembles. I've been contributing to a couple of horn mailing lists for several years. In that time, I've written reams of advice and comment, and I think it is about time I tried to put it all together. So starting from today I'm going to put together some of my better pieces on this blog so that I can more easily refer to them and so you can comment on them.

Sunday, 28 February 2010

Raising the tone 2 - controlling and changing tone colour

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Changing the "tone colour" can greatly increase the expressive range of your playing. Here, I'm going to concentrate on the me...
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Monday, 22 February 2010

IMSLP

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The International Music Score Library Project is a most wonderful resource. It aims to be a comprehensive online library for out-of-copyrig...
Sunday, 21 February 2010

Raising the tone

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This is what I hope will be the first of a series of posts on tone - techniques for achieving it, working out what you should be looking for...
Saturday, 13 February 2010

Joined a new orchestra

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I've now joined the Hillingdon Philharmonic as a regular player. I've deputised for them a couple of times before, most recently at ...
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Friday, 12 February 2010

Inspiring conductors

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Lyle Sanford has been musing lately on the autocratic habits of conductors and the childlike and dependent attitudes of some amateur music...
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Thursday, 17 December 2009

John Williams and Star Wars

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Been busy with the day job and haven't had much time to play anything lately. I've decided that while I'm slaving over a hot key...
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Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Accompanying in concertos

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Hounslow Symphony Orchestra had their autumn concert last weekend. One of the pieces we played was the Hummel Trumpet Concerto, with Hilmar ...
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