[for mutes, click here]
Pencil Clip
Also available from Osmun.
Don't be without one! As John Barrows once said, the sign of a professional is
always having a pencil with you at every lesson, practice session, and rehearsal!
Comfortable, protect the metal, choice of two heights, about $14 the set from Osmun.
BERP= Buzz Extension and Resistance Piece. Enables mouthpiece buzzing with the mouthpiece in position on the instrument. An indispensable practice aid for any brass player. $20.
Mouthpiece Case (from Osmun)
Fantasy Music Stands
Beautiful, hand-made wooden music stands of all types by UK
craftsman John Tyler.
Mister Standman Music Stands (made in
Idaho)
•75 designs available in 10 different woods
and many different stain colors.•
Amazon.com also lists quite a number
of wooden music stands...
Stand shelf for horn
players. Made
by horn player, educator, and craftsman Dave Donaldson.
Features shelf for stuff, knobs for mutes, pencil holes
in front.
Wooden Music Stand Clip
- indispensable if you
ever play outdoors to hold sheet music down when a
breeze comes up!
Chopsaver - soothing lip balm especially for
brass and wind players.
The folks at Embouchures.com offer a number of unusual but useful accessories, including brass buzz pipes (a.k.a. "Fish Callers"), a "great practice tool for staying in shape when on vacation" or when you don't have your horn.
Tony Halstead sells something similar - his "Halstead Buzz-Buddy":
Mouthpiece Pressure Training Device - available from Thompson Editions, made by Gebr. Alexander. Fits between mouthpiece and leadpipe; lets air escape if maximum desired pressure is exceeded.
Music Manuscript Paper - free!
This web site allows you to quickly and easily print blank manuscript paper of many formats; customizable. Includes links to free sheet music downloads. What an age we live in...
Woodwind/Brasswind - Good prices. Great selection of cases (among other things): check out the new Protec PB316SB Screw Bell French Horn PRO PAC case– nifty! Good price on the Konig and Meyer Horn Stand ($20) - they call it a "multi-purpose instrument stand", but it suits the horn much better than what they list as a 'French horn stand.'
Pro Tec makes good quality horn cases (normal or detachable bell) and gig bags at a reasonable price; their web site also offers other horn accessories (mouthpiece pouches, valve oil, and a mouthpiece protector.
Horn Guys offers fine horn cases made by Glenn Cronkhite, Marcus Bonna, Bags of Spain, Protec, and Walt Johnson.
CaseCAD - If you travel by plane with your horn a lot, you might consider getting a hard case (e.g. by Pelican or Anvil) and get a custom case insert. This company offers a free CAD software download (PC only) so that you can design foam insert for hard-sided equipment cases. You design it on the computer, email the design to them, and in less than a week you have your precision cut foam insert for your hard case.
Etymotic - makes Musicians Earplugs™ that reduce sound levels 20 dB without distorting speech and music. Get some. I said, “Get Some!”. Before it’s too late.
From the web site: “A horn support device and leather guard in one. More ergonomic than the pinkie ring or flipper. Fits both Kruspe and Geyer wrap horns. Used by the Cleveland and Boston Symphony Orchestras. The Clebsch Strap comes with the leather strap and a metal screw mounting plate. The mounting plate should be installed by a brass repair technician.” $45 + $5 S+H
Thompson Edition
Thompson Edition is one of the more attractive web sites around with high quality items for sale to match, including cases for horns and mutes, mouthpieces, and sheet music (50,000 titles). Free worldwide shipping (with a flat handling fee of $3.95).
Braceguard - "Lip protection for musicians and all brace patients."
Horn Stuff - accessories (BERP, mic, tuner, metronome, pencil clip), bags, books, cases (gig/flight bags, and a terrific padded detachable bell case with wheels!), horns (Atkinson, Hoyer), hand guards, horn stands (they offer their own slick fold-up compact horn stand, as well as the K&M horn stand described above (but cheaper)), music, mutes (Kowalchuk, Dennis Wick, Tom Crown, Silent Brass), triple horns (Hoyer); repair shop.
MusiChem - "Better Music Through Chemistry". Specialists in valve oils and grease for brass instruments. I haven't tried them, but the horn lists have had some very positive testimonials about their products lately.
ProTec - makes high-quality horn cases, gig bags, mouthpiece pouches, and various care & maintenance products.
Sorley's Horn Shop - offers repair services, Marcus Bonna cases, flippers and finger hooks, and their own GS1 Geyer model horn.
Adjustable Hand
Rest. aka
"Duck's Foot." Takes the weight off the little finger.
Amazon now lists musical instruments and accessories for sale, usually as an agent for other music stores. If you have an account with Amazon, it is usually easier to order the item from Amazon than the original seller. Pencil clips, for example.
ErgoHorn
Heavy horn? Back problems? Looking very much like Pip Eastop's Pipstick, the ErgoHorn stick makes it possible to play a 'weightless' horn and thus reduce real or potential back, arm, and neck problems.
Horn to Marching Mellophone Adapter
Made in Austria, marketed by Denis Wick in the UK. Battery-powered lip massager using "your own mouthpiece". Like one of those vibrating massage chairs - but for the lips! Read more about it here (pdf) and here (pdf).
Katahdin Studio Furniture of
Lewiston, Maine, also makes one-of-a-kind handcrafted
music stands, as well as lovely sheet music cabinets:
Horn Harmonics - A 'wheel' that shows alternate
fingerings and harmonics series numbers 'at a glance.'
Dillon Music - music manuscript paper, books, CDs,
method books, solos & duets, video/DVDs, finger
buttons, gig bags & cases, hand guards, instrument
stands, metronomes, mouthpiece pouches, mutes, oils
& lubricants, tuners, valve caps, used stuff.
Rayburn Music - instruments, accessories
Encore Music - huge array of every kind of oil,
grease, swabs & brushes, other Care &
Maintenance accessories, CDs, horn ties, pins, mugs, and
much more.
TuneUp Systems - textbook and CD to train the ear.