GREER Family: Unhyphenated* Americans since 1674
Custom Eccentric Rims are available. A Moosewood exclusive, these rims have graduated thickness, upper to lower surface. They can be made in three sizes, with a choice of round or med-flat facings: Not sure of the "Why" of such a rim? Call or e-mail.
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The extraordinary Magnum Opus Custom underpart: Amazing response in all registers! Available for trial. Call.
Moosewoods are available on the West Coast at Horn Guys. Allow Matt Anderson to show you several underparts and rims. See what you've been missing!
Natural Horns and period mouthpieces by Dr. Richard Seraphinoff (web site). Exquisitely crafted Courtois, Halari and Uhlmann 18th and 19th-Century horns and crooks. Tel/Fax: 812-333-3114
Horn repairs and fine custom work in New England? Look no further than Hornist/Craftsman Dr Ken Pope: www.poperepair.com
Where to find some of the best custom 8D's and leadpipes on the planet?? Go to Patterson's Hornworks
High quality American-made mutes and a unique practice mute! Visit hornist-craftsman Ion Balu in beautiful Memphis, Tennessee.
Historic recordings of famous horn artists: I want to recommend hornist Steve Ovitsky's Sotone site. Newly available on CD are rare recordings of Dennis and Aubrey Brain, Neil Sanders and other artists of the past! High-quality audio samples can be downloaded. http://www.sotone.com/
Mutes from the clever craftsman John Kowalchuk. Premium-quality handmade mutes and other custom work. Check out John's Canadian web site: http://home.ca.inter.net/~horn1/
Where do you find Moosewoods in "action"?
San Francisco Symphony,
Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony
New York Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Eastman-Rochester Philharmonic
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony
Dallas Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony
Jacksonville Symphony, Phoenix Symphony
San Diego Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Royal Opera Covent Garden, Seoul Korea Symphony
Houston Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Metropolitan Opera
Seattle Symphony, Detroit Symphony, New Mexico Symphony
Sadlers Wells, San Juan Symphony
*"Hyphenated", as in Scottish-American, etc. I am just "American"!
Thought for the year 2011:
A lesson which many gifted persons never learn as long as they live is that human beings in general are inherently very different from themselves in thought, in action, in general intention, and in interests. Many a reformer has died at the hands of a mob which he was trying to improve in the belief that other human beings can and should enjoy what he enjoys. This is one of the most painful and difficult lessons that each gifted child must learn, if personal development is to proceed successfully. It is more necessary that this be learned than that any school subject be mastered. Failure to learn how to tolerate in a reasonable fashion the foolishness of others leads to bitterness, disillusionment, and misanthropy.