Articles - Houghton Horns
- All
- 20 Questions
- Advice
- ATSSB
- Bach
- band director
- bass trombone
- beginner
- black friday
- brass
- brass instruments
- brass quintet
- brass repair
- cases
- cleaning
- Composer Spotlight
- concertos
- Conn-Selmer
- David cooper
- Deals
- Descant
- Double horn
- eastman
- Education
- Engelbert Schmid
- Equipment
- etudes
- euphonium
- Events
- french horn
- French horn case
- funny
- Gershwin
- Greg Black
- Haydn
- horn
- horn case
- horn quartet
- horns
- Interviews
- Lawson
- Lewis
- livestream
- low brass
- Maintenance
- marching band
- marcus bonna
- Mark Houghton
- mb cases
- method books
- mouthpiece
- mouthpieces
- music educ
- music education
- music education events
- mute
- organ
- percussion
- Performance
- practice
- practice mute
- Pre-Owned
- private teaching
- questions
- rare
- recipe for success
- Repair
- Reviews
- Ricco Kühn
- sasha romero
- Service
- sheet music
- shires
- Single horn
- solos
- sonatas
- Stomvi
- tenor trombone
- TMEA
- Triple horn
- trombone
- trumpet
- tuba
- Uncategorized
- Verus
- Vincent Bach
- wbh
- Wiseman
- wooden
- Working Brass Hero
- yamaha
-
2020-2021 TMEA All State Trumpet Etude #3 – Bb Major Allegro marziale by Gatti
Order the sheet music here.
-
2020-2021 TMEA All State Trumpet Etude #2 – F Major Adagio cantabile by Duhem
Order the sheet music here.
-
20 Questions with Kyle Sherman
20 Questions with Kyle Sherman! Mr. Sherman serves as Principal Trumpet of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 2016. Kyle heads to Durango, Colorado most...
-
2020-2021 TMEA All State Trumpet Etude #1 – D Major Con fuoco by Böhme
Order the sheet music here.
-
Pythagoras and the Harmonic Series
If you’ve heard of Pythagoras at all, it’s probably because of his most famous contribution to basic geometry: a2+ b2= c2. But did you know that Pythagoras did more than just write a cool...
-
How to be a Good Section Leader
Want to be the best section leader ever? Here are some tips! Listen to your band director. Congrats on being section leader! Your job is to lead your section to play its...
-
Brass Instrument Mouthpiece Bore Chart
Listed in order from largest to smallest. The larger the bore, the bigger and less focused the sound. Why do the bore sizes increase as the width of the mouthpiece...
-
Getting to know the Trumpet Family
Bb Trumpet: If you are in middle or high school, studying music in college, playing professionally, or are simply a trumpet enthusiast, you likely have a Bb trumpet. It uses piston valves, which reroute the air through...
-
20 questions with Michael Sachs
Michael Sachs is Principal Trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra, esteemed faculty of both the Cleveland Institute of Music & Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, and music director of Strings...
-
What to Do When Playing Hurts
You’ve heard the phrase “No pain, no gain”, but when it comes to your brass instrument, pain might impede your progress instead of fostering growth. Who wants to practice when...
-
20 Questions on the 20th with Billy Hunter
20 on 20 for February features Billy Hunter, Principal Trumpet with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York, and Assistant Principal Trumpet with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra in Chicago....