Inventor Ellis Workman demonstrates the proper playing position

The first web site focused exclusively on the "beloved, revered and mostly plastic Hosaphone" celebrates its ten-year anniversary. Hosaphone(tm) Headquarters started with an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), that was released to the Internet on April 1st, 1996 as an attempt to answer any and all questions relating to the Hosaphone. The Hosaphone is a low-cost valveless trumpet easily constructed with a mouthpiece, funnel for the bell and about eight feet of plastic tubing, which is commonly found in hardware stores. Among its many accomplishments, Hosaphone Headquarters has been listed in the ITG Top 25 Online Trumpet Resources, given a web site award by the Philadelphia Inquirer online and mentioned in the Washington Post. Numerous educators have used the Hosaphone to develop students' interest in music and sound.

Ellis Workman, who invented the Hosaphone brand, and David A. Roth, who composed an original work for the Hosaphone, have enjoyed entertaining trumpet players on the world wide web now for ten years through their unique approach to humor in explaining the Hosaphone and its importance. Workman commissioned Roth to create an original composition for the Hosaphone to feature its unique performance features. This inspired a jazzy blues work, Codetta in C for Hosaphone, which has been performed in the UK in Wantage, Oxfordshire, by Hosaphone Soloist, Graham Cross, where the performance was awarded "best in class" in the Entertainment class of Wantage Band's annual band contest by adjudicator Helen Wright. Codetta in C was also broadcast as an "extra" on the syndicated Dr. Demento Radio Show's Funny Five. Everyone with an interest in the trumpet and a sense of humor is warmly invited to visit Hosaphone Headquarters on the web.

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Hosaphone(tm) Headquarters