Twin Cities Horn Club

The mission of the Twin Cities Horn Club is to share, learn, mentor, create, discuss, and enjoy the art of horn playing while creating community through music.

This year, your Twin Cities Horn Club is setting a goal to raise $3,362 during Give To The Max to purchase two MTP Bb-/Eb-Parforce-horns (hunting horns), including alternate leadpipes for American mouthpieces, for use by any member of the Club!

If $3,362 seems like a very specific number to you, here is more information:

In 1681, 19-year old Franz Anton, Count von Spork, Viceroy of Bohemia, brought a set of French hunting horns to his court after his visit to Louis XIV of France. Hunting horns were an integral part of courts of nobility across France, the German states, and the Habsburg Empire in the 17th and 18th century. These instruments were the genesis for Bohemian instrument makers who created the ancestral instruments of what is now the modern orchestral horn. Today, hunting horn societies are popular in numerous European countries, and here in Minnesota!

$3,362 is in commemoration of that fateful year, 1681, times two for the purchase of two instruments (remember what teachers taught us about the correlation of math and music)! Just think of the rabbits, fox, deer, and wild boar we can scare off by playing these instruments outside individually and with the Jagdhornverein Twin Cities! Wow!

Please give generously!