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I have been playing the Horn for only 3 years. I always liked the sound of the Horn and at 45 years of age I thought I would give the French Horn a try. I started looking around to rent a horn, but nobody was renting Double Horns. So I began to play around on Ebay. One night, I won the bid on a Maxton Horn for $177.00. (Who would have thought it?) It was made in China but what did I know about Horns? Come to find out, a friend of mine who happens to be a principal hornist in our local professional symphonic orchestra (no name dropping) said it sounded like a $3,000 horn.
As I started to take lessons and moved around with my Horn, I saw a need for a portable Horn stand. All the ones I saw on the market were expensive, or looked like a mini bike rack, or didn’t fold as flat as I wanted it to, or were really a guitar stand. What’s up with that? An instrument as regal as a French Horn should have it's own stand! Well, as long as my other hobby is wood working, I invented and crafted a horn stand that seemed to work very well.
One day as I was trying to play with the ensemble at church my principal hornist friend saw it and said he would like one also. So I worked with my basic idea and after 2 months of trial and error, I came up with the French Horn Stand. As long as I put that much effort into it....I thought that I could get it to work for me. You see, for the past two years I have been going to Ecuador on mission trips with my church and I’m hoping to generate enough money from French Horn Stands to pay for another trip this year. If you buy a stand, Thank you. If you know of a horn player, please pass on the web address. Perhaps you would like to buy one for them, or their birthday is just around the corner, or maybe for Christmas. What about just because you like them? Thanks for coming in and looking around. God Bless
Here are a few shots from the 2006 mission trip to Ecuador Mark 4: 26-29 Nine of us completed construction on a three room medical clinic for the poor and had 5 days of vacation Bible school for what started to be 75 kids and ended up being 175.
God surely is good. 
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