11. What are the names/addresses of horn manufacturers?
If you are thinking about buying a new horn, and are unsure where to start,
you may want to look at "So, you want to buy a new horn?", a somewhat
irreverent but hopefully useful compendium on information on the topic.
Horn Manufacturers & Representatives within the US
[Mark] Atkinson Music Conn United Musical Instruments USA, Inc.
(custom made horns) (8D, 10D)
2155 Verdugo Blvd, Suite 118 1000 Industrial Parkway
Montrose, CA 91020 Elkhart, IN 56516
+1 818 547-0976 1 800 759-2666 (Customer Service - US/Canada)
+1 219 295-0079
Finke of North America Karl Hill
(also "TuneUp") (Kortesmaki Horn Shop - custom horns)
14232 Marsh Lane, Suite 126 1474 Calvin S.E.
Dallas, TX 75234 Grand Rapids, MI 49507
phone/fax: (804) 741-6852 +1 616 247-1475
Lark In The Morning
(Alphorns)
PO Box 1176
Mendocino, CA 95460 USA
LarkInfo: +1 707 964-3762
Mail Order: +1 707 964-5569
Fax: +1 707 964-1979
email: larkinam@mcn.org
homepage:
http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/larkhp.html
"The Alphorn is a long horn. made of hardwood and covered in birch bark, so long
that the bell rests on the ground when played."
Lawson Brass Instruments, Leblanc-Holton
Inc. (MerkerMatic, Farkas, Super Farkas, Tuckwell)
(Custom horns) G. Leblanc Corp.
21023 Keadle Road 7001 Leblanc Blvd
P.O. Box 38 Kenosha, WI 53141-1415
Boonsboro, MD 21713 800-558-9421 (US/Canada)
+1 301 733-6393 +1 414-658-1644 (International)
+1 414-658-2824 (Fax)
Rauch Natural Horns
S. W. Lewis Orchestral Horns Daniel Rauch, Horn Maker
1770 Berteau Ave c/o McCoy's Horn Library
Chicago IL 60613 3204 West 44th Street
+1 (312) 348-1112 Minneapolis, MN 55410
+1 612 927-6021
[see also the entry for Rauch Horns, Norway]
Richard M. Seraphinoff Yamaha Musical Products
Historical Instrument Maker P.O. Box 899
(natural horns) Grand Rapids, MI 49512
9245 East Woodview Drive +1 616 940-4900
Bloomington, IN 47401-9143 home page: http://www.yamaha.com/
+1 812 333-0167 [NB - I'd love to have some non-US addresses for
FAX: +1 812 337-0118 Yamaha, too]
Horn Manufacturers & Representatives outside the US
Gebr. Alexander Keith Berg
Bahnhofstrasse 9 (custom-made horns; SF Symphony uses
D-55116 Mainz extensively)
GERMANY General Delivery
phone: +49 6131 288080 Dunster, B.C. V0J 1J0
fax : +49 6131 224248 CANADA
phone: +1 604 968 4463
Finke GmbH & Co
Engelbert Schmid GmbH Metallblasinstrumentenbau
Kohlstattstrasse 8 Postfach 2006
D-87757 Kirchheim-Tiefenried Industriestrasse 7
GERMANY D-4973 Vlotho-Exter
phone: +49 8266 1579 GERMANY
Telefon: 0 52 28/3 23
Manfred Moennig
Knopf (custom horns; used in Leipzig
Bismarckstrasse 12 Gewandhaus Orchestra)
D-08258 Markneukirchen Fabrik Walter Moennig
GERMANY Ludwig-Jahn-Strasse 280
phone: +49 37422 2471 9659 Markneukirchen
GERMANY
Phone: +49 37422-2595
Paxman Musical Instruments, Ltd.
Unit B4, Linton House, 164-180 Union
Dieter Otto Street
Teisinger Berg 15 London SE1 0LH
84494 Neumarkt Sankt Veit ENGLAND
GERMANY FAX 0171 620 1688
Phone: +49 8639 1564 Workshop 0171 620 1990
0171 620 2077
0171 240 3642
Rauch Horns Rocky Mountain Alphorns
PROF. KOHTS VEI 77 1320 1629 Broadview Rd., NW
STABEKK - NORWAY Calgary, Alberta T2N 3H2
Phone: +47 67121199 Telefax: +47 CANADA
67121599 phone: +1 (403) 283-4468
12. What are the names/addresses of horn dealers and suppliers?
There are many fine local music stores which can give you the chance to try
out horns, and it is not the intent of this item to direct you away from
those. However, for a major purchase such as a horn (which can easily exceed
US $5000), mail order shops may give you a substantial discount, since at
least taxes are not usually payable from them. You may want to consider them
for this reason. Some of these include:
Horn dealers/suppliers within the U.S.
Altieri Greg Black
+1 303-291-0658 Phone: +1 718 897-6544
Horn gig bags, etc. Maker of mouthpieces; has all original
Giardinelli models available.
Brass Arts Unlimited
(used Alexanders, Conns; Brasswinds
"Canadian Brass" instruments) 19880 State Line Road
401 Mace Avenue South Bend, IN 46637
Baltimore MD 22121 USA 1-800-348-5003
+1 410 686-6108 fax: +1 219 277-2542
FAX: +1 410 686-5144
Steve Dillon Music
(classic used/new brass Giardinelli
instruments) 7845 Maltlage Drive
325 Fulton Street Liverpool, NY 13090 USA
Woodbridge, NJ 07095 1 800 288 2334 (US)
+1 908 634-3399/+1 908 +1 315 652 4792
634-4932 http://www.giardinelli.com/
email dillon01@aol.com
Tom Greer (Moosewood
mouthpieces)
Moosewood Hornists' Horn Accessories International
Requisites (hard gig bags &c)
PO Box 27333 c/o Joel Pereira
Phoenix, AZ 85061-7333 336 S. Dale Ave
+1 602 843-9714 Arlington Heights Il 60004
e-mail: Vox Mail (708) 604-0530
MOOSEWOODHR@worldnet.att.net
International Musical
Suppliers Osmun Music
105 West Prospect Avenue 5 Forest Street
Mount Prospect, IL 60056 Arlingtion, MA 02146
1 800 762-1116 +1 617-646-5756
+1 708 870-1112 1 800 223 7846
Fax: +1 708 870 1767 email: sales@osmun.com
Email: home page: http://www.osmun.com
73543.1004@compuserve.com
Ken Pope
(used German horns, e.g.
Schmidts, Geyers, Kruspes, Reunion Blues
Alexes) (gig bads & accessories)
+1 617 522-0532 http://www.reunionblues.com
email hornrx@aol.com
Stork Custom Mouthpieces
Darin Sorley Rt. 2 Box 1818
(mutes) Maple Hill Road
656 E. Pearl St. Plainfield, VT 05667
Greenwood, IN 46143 +1 802 454-1004
+1 (317) 885-1103 email: stork@plainfield.bypass.com
home page:
http://plainfield.bypass.com/bypass/users/stork
TrumCor
(mutes) Ward's Mutes
3456 Mockingbird Lane 2476 Bolsover St. #548
Dallas, TX 75205 Houston, TX 77005-2518
Phone:+1 214 521-0634 +1 (713) 668-0836
Fax: +1 214 521-1174 home page: http://www.dxs.com/wardmutes/
Wichita Band Instruments Company
2525 E. Douglas
Wichita, KS 67211
1 800 835 3006 (US/Canada)
+1 316 684 0291 (International)
http://www.wichitaband.com/
Horn dealers/suppliers outside the U.S.
Bernhard Schmidt
Zimmerstrasse 4
William Hopson 9659 Markneukirchen
(Alphorn Maker) GERMANY
1629 Broadview Rd. N.W. Phone: +49 37422-2178
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 3H2 Manufacturer of horn mouthpieces,
+1 403 283-4468 esp. German mfrd horns - Moenning,
Hoyer, Kruspe, Schmidt, Alexander
- and US and Yamaha horns in the
Geyer and Schmidt styles.
Tapestry Music Bob Tucci
home page: Horn and Tuba Center
http://domar.bc.ca/tapestry.html Hauptstr. 17-19
D-82223 Eichenau
Online brass catalog. GERMANY
email: BobTucci@aol.com
Additionally, some manufacturers will let you tour their plant and try out
whatever's currently in stock if you are seriously considering a purchase.
[NB - I will try to secure non toll-free numbers for those of you who cannot
take advantage of them]
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13. What are the names/addresses of horn ensemble music suppliers?
Purveyors of horn ensemble music in the US include:
Southern Music Co.
PO Box 329
San Antonio, TX 78292-0329 Margun Music Baltimore Horn Club Pubs
USA 167 Dudley Rd. (Leigh Martinet arrangements)
1 800 284 5443 Newton Centre, MASS, 02159 7 Chapel Court
Home page: +1 617-332-6398 Timonium, MD 21093
http://www.southernmusic.com
Thompson Editions, Inc.
231 Plantation Road
Roch Hill, SC 29732-9441
USA
+1 803 366-4446 [fax/tele]
The Hornist's Nest Calle Priorat, 4 TBQ Press
Box 253 E-08328 Alella (Barcelona) 2308 Don Andres Avenue
Buffalo, NY 14226-0253 Spain Talahassee FL 32304 USA
(34) (3) 540-2721 email: tbqt@freenet.fsu.edu
[fax/tele]
email:
100776.2440@compuserve.com
email:
thompsonsb@winthrop.edu
Sheet Music Service
Spindrift Music Company Robert King of Portland
38 Dexter Road Music Sales, Inc. 34 N.W. 8th Ave.
Lexington MA 02173 USA 140 Main Street Portland, OR 97209-3591
+1 617 862-0884 North Easton, MA 02356 USA FAX: +1 503-222-9600
FAX: +1 508 238 2571 Phone: +1 503-222-9607
Toll Free: 1-800-452-1133
Theodore Presser Co. Onondaga Music Simon Sargon, Composer
1 Presser Place 412 South Clinton Street (incl work for
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-3490 Syracuse, NY 13202 horn/soprano/piano)
PH: (610) 525-3636 Tel: (800) 666-1665 8500 Hillcrest
FAX: (610) 527-7841 Fax: (315) 422-2334 Dallas, TX 75225
+1 214 526 8084
Jim Erwin
(Mozart #1 and #3, with McCoy's Horn Library
Mozart-style piano Emerson Horn Editions (also Alphorn *stuff*)
accompianiment) P.O. Box 101466 3204 West 44th Street
P.O. Box 551442 Denver, CO 80250 Minneapolis, MN 55410
Dallas, TX 75355 +1 612 927-6021
Trombacor Music
Timber Ridge Music 5448 N. Tyler Ave.
779 Old House Road Arcadia, Ca 91006-5902
Pasadena, MD 21122 +1 818 448-1773
email: kenbell@erols.com email: trombacor@flash.net
home page:
http://www.flash.net/~trombaco
International purveyors of horn music include:
Canadian Music Centre
(specializes in music by
Thunderlip Canadians)
23 Benlamond Chalmers House
Ave. Ward Music 20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto 412 West Hastings Street Toronto, ON
Ontario M4E Vancouver, BC, CANADA M4Y 1J9
1Y8 V6B 1L3 +1 (604) 682-5288 CANADA
CANADA +1 416 961 6601
FAX: +1 416 961 7198
Home page:
http://www.ffa.ucalgary.ca/cmc
June Emerson
(Wind Music) American Horn Quartet
Ampleforth, N Studio Music Company (Music, CDs of the AHQ)
Yorkshire 77-79 Dudden Hill Lane Schulstrasse 3
Y06 4HF London NW10 1BD Oberdrees
ENGLAND ENGLAND 53359 Rheinbach
Fax: +44 1439 GERMANY
788715 +49 2226-7302
Phoenix Music
Publications
(Kerry
Turner/AHQ,
and others) Hanz Pizka Edition
Jacob Postfach 1136 B. Schott's Soehne
Obrechtstraat D-85541 Kircheim Weihergarten 5
23 GERMANY D-55116 Mainz
7512 DG Fax: (49) (89) 903-9414 GERMANY
Enschede email, or to obtain catalogue: phone: (06131) 2460
THE 100524.735@compuserve.com fax: (496131) 246250
NETHERLANDS home page:
phone: +31 53 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PizkaHans/
432.38.64
fax : +31 53
430.92.12
Alphonse Leduc
Editions Green Bay Music
Musicales, 28 Dolbear Street Green Bay, Auckland 1007, NEW ZEALAND
175, Rue http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Green_Bay_Music
Saint-Honore' email: 100243.2322@compuserve.com (David Woodcock)
Paris FRANCE phone: +64 9 817 3295 fax: +64 9 849 4642
[many more...email them to me and I'll include them here]
See also the WWW entry for the Norwegian Music Information Centre.
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14. What music is available for horn ensemble?
You name it, someone's likely to have transcribed it. The key is to find
it... the above can usually send you a catalog.
In addition, it's often pretty easy to transcribe music written for brass
ensemble to horn ensemble; of course, you should contact the copyright owner
of the brass ensemble arrangement for legal specifics.
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15. What horn ensembles are out there? Contact info?
New England Horn Society
c/o Marilyn Bone Kloss
1 Concord Greene Unit 8
Concord MA 01742-3124
Tel: +1 508-369-0011 (home)
Fax: +1 508-369-0013 (work)
email: kloss@mga.com (work)
Publishes Cornucopia newsletter and holds meetings a few times
a year in the Boston area (kloss@mga.com)
Cornucopia is available via the Osmun Brass home page ..
http://www.osmun.com/. Look under "What's New" for
the latest article.
[editor's note: the newsletter is *very* nicely done, indeed.]
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Austin Horn Ensemble
c/o Thomas Pavlechko, Music Director
St. Martin's Lutheran Church
606 W 15th St
Austin, TX 78701
Tel: +1 512-476-6757
email: rboerger@io.com
home page: http://www.io.com/~rboerger/AHE.html
Rehearsals weekly, performances several times yearly in the
Austin TX area, yearly recital
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Horn Club of Central Kentucky
8030 Elklick Falls Road
Lexington, KY 40515 USA
+1 606 263-9849
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Baltimore Horn Club
7 Chapel Court
Timonium, MD 21093 USA
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Maryland Horn Club
University of Maryland
email: bytesize@erols.com (Kathleen L. Long)
Rehearses Saturdays during the semester at the UM Band Hall.
Concerts yearly for retirement homes, and on campus
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Los Angeles Horn Club, c/o James Decker
University of Southern California Music Department
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0851
home page: http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAhorn
The Los Angeles Horn Club comprises many of the professional hornists
working in film studios on the West Coast. The home page contains
a photo of the group, work opportunities, the Los Angeles Horn
Club Library, and info about the International Video Audition
Service.
A text catalog is available. Also available is the "Master Series
for Horn", which includes a 120 page book, a two hour video,
excerpts of over 60 common audition requests, and an audio
cassette.
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Kammercor Horn Quartet
Moravian College, PA
Contact: Nancy A. Krause, MENAK01@moravian.edu
Home Page: http://www.io.com/~rboerger/kammercor.html
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Spokane Horn Club, c/o Carl Bangs
N. 33208 Shanna Drive
Chattaroy, WA 99003
The Spokane Horn Club has been in existence since about 1974 and has between
20 and 30 adult members varying in ability from amateur to experienced
professionals. We meet monthly and perform frequently at a variety of
ommunity events ranging from Oktoberfest to Christmas and MPTF gigs of
various kinds. We have sponsored work-shops including one in 1991 with Phil
Farkas, and have an annual weekend camp-out during the summer at South Lake
Skookum in a national forest north of Spokane.
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Northwest Horn Society
c/o Kathleen Vaught Farmer, Professor of Horn
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma WA 98447-0003
email: farnerkv@PLU.edu
phone: (206) 535-7607
The Northwest Horn Society exists to promote the horn and horn playing in
the Northwest region of North America. The Northwest Horn Society
encourages concurrent membership in the International Horn Society.
Membership in the NWHS is open to any interested individual or
institution at the following yearly rates: Adult $15. IHS member $7.50,
Student $5.
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Norwegian Horn Club
Box 179, Sentrum
N-0102 Oslo
NORWAY
The club has about 220 members.
for more info, contact: tryfri@oslonett.no
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Nederlands Hoornisten Genootschap [Dutch Horn Society]
Po-Box 294
1000 AG Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
Publishes a magazine, "Uijlenspieghel". Both professional and
amateur hornists are welcome.
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The American Horn Quartet is perhaps the best-known
touring, professional Horn ensemble. You can get more information about the
group by following the link.
Trivia fact: Your FAQ maintainer was a contemporary of AHQ's Kerry Turner
when both were growing up in San Antonio, Texas.
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16. Where can I get my horn repaired?
Oh, boy. Is THIS a loaded question, or what? We'll, let's give it a shot ..
Most horn players should be be able to perform basic maintenance on their
instruments. This would include such things as cleaning the instrument,
oiling valves, restringing valves, changing spit valve corks, and so forth.
Local music shops should be able to assist with these items, and your fellow
hornists are usually more than glad to help as well.
For more major repairs (overhauls, dent removal, etc.) you probably want to
take your instrument to a known reputable repair shop, as improper repairs
can severely damage the instrument, sometimes irrevocably. If you are
fortunate enough to have a "custom" horn, you may want to either send the
instrument back to the manufacturer, or ask the manufacturer for a referral.
Many of the more skilled repair shops listed below will have some degrees of
familiarities with many makes of horns - you might ask them if they've ever
worked on an Alexander, for example.
As everything else in the FAQ, these listings have been provided by your
fellow musicians and are provided without any warranties, express, implied,
or otherwise.
Many thanks to Carol Schurr for suggesting this section.
Dick Ackright
Best Instrument Repair
? 14th Street
Oakland, CA
William Kendall (Lawson's repair person)
Baltimore, MD
David Kratz (USArmy Bandsman and repairperson)
709 S. Adams Street
Arlington, VA 22204-2114
+1 703 521-4588
Centex Band Repair
800-A Brandi Lane
Round Rock, TX 78681
+1 512 388-7415
Ken Pope
Pope Instrument Repair
80 Wenham St.
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
+1 617 522-0532
email hornrx@aol.com
Osmun Music
5 Forest Street
Arlingtion, MA 02146
+1 617-646-5756
1 800 223 7846
email: sales@osmun.com
home page: http://www.osmun.com"
The Brass & Woodwind Shop, Inc.
519 Carothers Ave.
Carnegie, PA 15106
+1 412-276-6899
Robb Stewart Brass Repair
140 E. Santa Clara #18
Arcadia, CA
+1 818 447-1904
Sarah Strickland
Strickland's Instruments & Repair
5570 Hidden Harbor Landing
Gainseville, GA 30504 [Atlanta area]
+1 770 536-7105
Ron Partch
Band Instrument Services
6 Magnolia Avenue
Scarborough, Ontario
Canada M1K 3K1
+1 416 261-2230
Groenemans
Dirk Heziuslaan 8
5591 AB Heeze
The Netherlands
phone: +31 40 22.64.287
Brass Specialisten Lars Gerdt
Brass Specialisten Lars Gerdt
Wallingatan 33
S-111 24 Stockholm
Sweden
tel: +46-8-411 62 62
fax: +46-8-411 62 63
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