Nancy Jordan Fako wrote his biography, Philip Farkas and His Horn - A Happy, Worthwhile Life.
Farkas had to take a street car to school, and the conductor began to complain at the tuba's size.
Farkas asked him what instrument would be more convenient and the conductor pointed to a horn case belonging to a band that was on the street.
He designed the top-selling Holton-Farkas horn made by the Frank Holton Company and a large selection of mouthpieces.
It is my desire to create such a book, containing not only the findings of my own years of experience, but that of my teachers, which prompts me to write so complex a subject as horn playing.