But he's still designing and making instruments. Now it's French horns, which he's building by himself at his home in Vermont, once again in a basement workshop as he'd done a quarter century ago ...

Horn maker has eye, ear for details; Instruments: From his Boonsboro shop, a former BSO member builds some of the world’s finest French horns.

However, when it comes to the French horn, which requires the musician to place their hand inside the bell of the instrument, the task becomes trickier. Levinson searched the web to see what was ...

The estimate doesn’t count musicians who play the horn as a secondary instrument. By contrast, there are about 600 trumpet and 575 clarinet players.

This horn isn't the oldest known musical instrument. Some flutes made from bird bones and mammoth tusks go back about 40,000 years. Still, the ancient conch shell is a unique find.

As for why he chose the English horn as his main instrument, Mr. Stacy had a simple answer. “It is most like the human voice,” he said in the 1996 interview, ...

A conch shell that is now thought to be a horn was found in 1931, but researchers only recently discovered that it may have been used as a musical instrument.

The horn maker wants to remember what happened that day nearly a year ago in his instrument factory at 12th Street and Lydia Avenue. It’s a reminder of how quickly his business is growing.