I came, I saw, I blew it
The Editor of the Horn Magazine, Ian Wagstaff, meets a (present-day) Roman horn player, and discovers that the English school of horn playing may date back further than anybody expected.

The ultimate challenge?
Kitty Morgan-Jones tells how she rediscovered horn playing after a long break - and after she had become profoundly deaf.

How to get on - and get in
Hugh Seenan gives some expert advice on how to approach Music College auditions, from the low register and how to approach the test pieces, to what to wear!

"Exaggerate until you are on the brink of blushing with shame"
Stephen Stirling shares his thoughts on how to produce effective and musical phrasing, even on something as apparently boring as a simple arpeggio.

In your teeth
The father and son team of David and Richard Williams, who are both dentists and horn players, discuss how to keep up the horn playing if you need to wear a brace on your teeth.

Away with transposition!
John Boden sticks his head above the parapet to suggest that transposition has had its day.

PLUS News, Views, Reviews and the inimitable (and who would wish to?) Otto Fisch.

Vol. 6 No. 2 (July 1998)

The First Lady
Chris Huning and Hugh Seenan meet the First Lady of British horn playing - Claire Briggs, Principal Horn of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Saturday Schools
The Horn Magazine profiles the Junior Departments of the U.K. music colleges, and wonders why their talented young students remain in relative obscurity.

Love that sound!
Stephen Stirling suggests ways of learning to love your horn sound - even if it does sound like a drainpipe on an off day.

Brace Position
Simon de Souza notices that many young horn players are wearing braces on their teeth, and wonders what the effects might be.

Many Happy Returns
Tony Catterick helps Douglas Moore celebrate his 80th birthday, and looks back over a horn-playing career that began, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, in 1937.

Racy Sports Car or Smooth Limo?
Peter Francombe, Principal Horn of the Northern Philharmonia, road tests the new Paxman model 45 Bb/Eb alto/F alto.

PLUS News, Views, Reviews and the inimitable (and who would wish to?) Otto Fisch.

The end of an era, but no bars rest yet!
Hugh Seenan and Chris Huning meet Geoff Bryant, who after 22 years as principal horn of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, has taken up the post of Head of Wind and Brass at Trinity College of Music, London.

Thinking Aloud
Stephen Stirling begins a series of personal thoughts about defining your own ideal sound, and suggests ways of getting in touch with it.

Folio IV - six new pieces
Composer, Nicholas Sackman, introduces his new set of six pieces for horn and piano, which were written to appeal to, and be playable by, players from about grade 4 upwards.

The Expats
Hugh Seenan launches a new series giving news of the many British players who play with leading orchestras abroad.

A Rough Guide to the Konzertstuck
The Horn Editor, Ian Wagstaff, and friends get to grips with Schumann's daunting horn writing, under the expert guidance of Kendall Betts.

PLUS News, Views, Reviews and the inimitable (and who would wish to?) Otto Fisch.