Matt, I sure would like for you and Dr. Hank to be in the same room and have a discussion. A guy with his experience, well maybe I`m jaded or something.

He is an ex pat American, both he and his wife. He`s a Phd in horn, is wife is choral, although she is a dean now.

A kinder better teacher you would never see. I get a Master Class every Wednesday most of the year.

When we got into the discussion about mouthpieces his words were..it means nothing.. a good horn player can play with any major mouthpiece and make it sound perfect.

I`ll drag up the video of him making a horn...it`s cool. And post some more stuff with him talking to youtube.

He does travel a lot.

Look up Dr. Henry Meredith on google. He is now up to about 4500 brass instruments in his house.

Some worth 60 to 80k. But at the end of the day, he gave the wife and I an hour course in a parking lot one day. The wife plays most anything but never did a 3 valve instrument..and now he says she could be principal baritone someplace. But that`s 30 plus years of education and she can count even if it`s 22 bars at 2 2 time. Drives me nuts.

John Conley
Musica est vita