The school is hosting a regional clinic for NAPBIRT tomorrow and some of the clinicians, as well as board members for the school, were nice enough to come a day early and speak to the class. The day started with a presentation from Scott Mandeville from Tim's Music in Sacramento, CA. Then continued with a presentation from Mike Corrigan and Andy Vavricek from BAC Horn Doctors in Kansas. They are manufacturing instruments in the United States and also offer a Sackbut. The day was finished with Cristobal Quintana from Miyazawa Flutes and Mark Sorlie, the Warranty Manager from Yamaha Corporation of America. Mark also brought everyone a new apron with our names embroidered onto them. Thank you, to the people at Yamaha for such a nice gift.

This week we started learning about Trombones. We began with cleaning and aligning handslides. Stay posted for a project instrument page soon.

We have been working with French Horns in class and today I was able to spend some time with several different examples. They include Single Horns in both Bb and F, Compensating Horn, Double Horn: both Geyer and Kruspe wraps, a Schmidt Horn, a Natural Horn, and an Italian horn with five valves.