A retired San Diego Symphony French horn player finds joy in making, fixing and playing his favorite instrument.

Walter Lawson has built French horns in the mountains of Western Maryland for more than 20 years. Horn players in big symphonies around the country swear by them. But he's getting out of the business.

Bruce Lawson can be remembered for bringing some music into the world through his meticulous work of shrinking and expanding brass and applying his engineering background to create different designs.

David Cooper, French horn with Berlin Philharmonic and guest artist with the Lansing Symphony this Saturday night. Saturday night, the Lansing Symphony welcomes a Lansing-born soloist that nowadays ...

One of the many cool things about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Mozart Festival, which runs through Feb. 5, is the opportunity it offers orchestra members to shine in the solo spotlight. So often ...

It is one of the most rousing instruments in the orchestra, used to create soaring fanfares and powerful harmonics. However, it seems the beauty of the French horn may be lost on the very musicians ...

The French horn. It’s the heart and soul of any symphony orchestra, and writing for it always brought out the best in Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss and so many other great composers. But don’t let ...

Compare for yourself. Here's what the finale of Brahms' Horn Trio sounds like on the natural (valveless) horn. John Zirbel, principal horn player for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, recently joined ...