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I Found My Horn: One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument (Hardcover)

by Jasper Rees (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson General; 1st ed. edition (10 Jan 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0297852256
  • ISBN-13: 978-0297852254
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 288,567 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

'This quirky memoir, in which Rees decides after 22 years to take up the French horn again, is surprisingly evocative and moving'

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'[This book] reads like the best kind of Nick Hornby novel - all midlife crisis, technical obsessiveness and boyish defiance...The build-up to his climactic, foolhardy performance is irresistible, and his unashamed fixation with everything horn-oriented rings so true that it's impossible not to get a little horn-obsessed oneself.' (SUNDAY TIMES )

'this is a book teeming with first hand research and thorough reading. It remains enough of a laddish yarn to amuse the casual reader, but there is also enough meat packed into its pages to entice those with a genuine love of musical history, and especially those with any interest in the French horn.' (THE HERALD )

'the strength and reach of Rees' enthusiasm carry the day...Rees did stand up to be counted, and he got a fine book out of it, too' (TELEGRAPH )

'There are things in this delightful, warm, witty, erudite book that will appeal to almost everyone...It's not just Rees's personal transformation that makes this book such a joy, though. It's also playfulness, the flourishes, his eye for detail and the persuasive weight of his enthusiasm.' (MAIL ON SUNDAY )

'A very approachable insight into a world of obsessive perfectionists.' (THE INDEPENDENT )

'This quirky memoir, in which Rees decides after 22 years to take up the French horn again, is surprisingly evocative and moving' (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY )

'This inspiring, moving and quite hilarious book is the perfect cheer-up present for everyone you ever knew. Rush out and buy...' (CLASSICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE )
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT MUSIC, 26 Jan 2008
By Frank Barson "Ted" (Cheltenham, UK) - See all my reviews
Quirky? Yes. Funny? Yes. Inspirational? Certainly. Just for horn players? Absolutely not.

In fact it doesn't matter if you're tone deaf and know nothing about music. This is a book for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to follow an ambition, setting yourself an unfeasibly ridiculous target and seeing just where it takes you. And Jasper Rees does take us to some fairly strange places... unless you're a horn player that is.

On the author's journey we hear how his obsession with the instrument develops into a passion. But essentially it's a story of an ordinary bloke (with a refreshingly honest, self-mocking style) trying to do something bloody difficult and along the way we learn a lot about him and his instrument.

Music lovers will love the way this book has been so well researched but then so will musical ignoramuses like me and both will be equally entertained.

Try it. (The book, that is, but only the french horn if you really must.)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST FOR HORN PLAYERS, 20 Jan 2008
When I started reading I soon realiized this was not a funny/silly book but although written in a light style it is serious study of modern horn playing today. I have been playing the horn for the past 40 years but there there was hardly a page I turned without learning somthing about the horn.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for horn players and lesser mortals, 15 Feb 2008
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Excellent. This book really captures the strange mix of joy, exhileration and sheer terror that being a horn player entails.
I'll be recommending it to all my horn playing friends, and to players of the easier instruments!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent holiday read - or for any time of year in fact!
As an ex-brass player who recently picked up an instrument again I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Reading on holidays I literally raced through it - Rees writes very well indeed... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Suzy

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Inspirational!
Jasper Rees book is compulsive reading for anyone who has ever considered playing the French Horn. I literally could not put it down. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Gh Macausland

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible!
A most entertaining, well written and well researched book. What simply staggered me, however, is that I seem to be living in a parallel universe to Mr Rees. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly Wonderful Horn Book!
This is a masterpiece from start to finish. Jasper Rees writes with knowledge, understanding, great humour and greater humanity. Read more
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