Found this article on cnn.com about a guy who makes custom clothes with essentially the same business model as most of the custom horn makers. His arguments for this approach over the large manufacturers is also basically the same.
Feel great and look your best with a slimming, fashionable Medlin horn!
I had these at the Southeast Horn Workshop and will now offer them for sale on my website. These pipes simulate your leadpipe, minus the rest of the horn (just the pipe!) to give your chops the resistance that they need to form a correct embouchure.
As many teachers will tell you, free buzzing or buzzing [...]
The Southeast Horn workshop was great! Thanks to everyone who played the horn and chatted with me. The response was overwhelmingly positive, the horn was very well received.
The Mid-South Horn Workshop in Memphis is next for me, I am going to update a few features on the prototype and present it again in two weeks. Also, [...]
Good news first, I met Boba Fett yesterday
Bad news, the reason that I met Boba Fett was that I spent the day at the Mall of America in Minneapolis. I’ve been playing a last minute gig with the Lrya Baroque this week which means I won’t have enough time to finish the B [...]
Don’t forget!! Plan to visit the Southeast Horn Workshop March 6-8th in Cullowhee, NC. I will be there with a few horns to try and chat about. Hope to see you there!
At long last, photos of the Medlin horn are up! There is a nice slideshow and a very little information at The Medlin Horn. I’m still deciding how to present the features and options on the horn, I think I’ll sit on that part for a little bit but I did post some of the [...]
I wanted to make sure that everyone has this link, I am surprised at the number of people still unaware of the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). This is a completely free collection of sheet music in the public domain for your printing and playing pleasure. Since many of the scores and parts are scanned [...]
Welcome hornists and horn aficionados! Medlinhorns.com is the web front of Jacob Medlin, a horn builder located in Bloomington Indiana. Please enjoy this site as it grows and develops in anticipation of its official launch on August 1st, 2009.