French Hornist since age 13:  I took my bugle to 7th grade and asked the band director if I could practice my bugle in one of his band practice rooms for Boy Scouts during study hall.  I went home that day with a French Horn!

Oak Ridge High School, Orland Florida 1968 - 1970.  I was 2nd Horn under Keith Ledford.  Brian Chin was my buddy and was 1st Horn no matter how hard I tried to beat him out!

Orchestral Performance Major on Horn, 1970 - 1973 at Rolllins College, Winterpark FL

Principal Horn, Brevard Symphony Orchestra, FL under Joseph Kreines (conductor, composer, clinician) 1970 - 1973

Free Lance Horn, Orlando Fl (played with Johnnie Mathis at Disney World)

Horn Instructor, US School of Music, Little Creek Virginia 1973 - 1975    I auditioned after my junior year at Rollins.  Why try to pass the piano practicum and music theory when I could join the Army during the Vietnam War instead??!

Pit Orchestra, 1st Horn, 2 Broadway shows in Norfolk VA

Principal Horn, 84th Army Band, Stuttgart Germany

Principal Horn, US Army Band Europe, Heidelberge GE, 1977-1982

4th Horn, Virginia Beach Pops, 9 seasons   Try holding 2 parttime jobs and keeping a 3.36 average as an electrical engineering major. The Pops paid the mortgage during that time.

Prinicpal Horn, Summerville Wind Ensemble (South Carolina)

2004 - present:  Prinicpal Horn, Summerville Communicty Orchestra:  http://orchestra.summerville.com

Bruce Lawson has made me a custom Fourier Series Double Horn Model 804, delivered December 2005. This instrument is acoustically near perfection. The "V2" leadpipe works as advertised, making the high and low range more responsive.  Now I have that double high E-flat... a note the Holton H-180 could only dream of hitting.  I ordered the Horn while I was in Iraq installing satellite Internet for the Army.  http://www.lawsonhorns.com/Models.htm

Lawson has retired, and since passed away.  NPR has an audio article worth listening to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6673671

I collect French Horn miniatures.