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Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to the Test

PUBLISHED: January 8, 2012, John Ericson

A week from today I will present a session at the 2012 Southwest Horn Conference with the title “Horn Secrets: Putting Conventional Wisdom to the Test.” The following was turned in for the program book: Many elements of a conventional approach to horn playing were put forth by Philip Farkas in his 1956 text The [...]

Hornmasters on Double and Triple Tonguing. Part III: Brophy, Tuckwell, and Reynolds

PUBLISHED: December 20, 2011, John Ericson

To conclude this series on double and triple tonguing, we turn to William R. Brophy, who suggests in his Technical Studies for Solving Special Problems on the Horn to focus on cutting off the ends of the syllables with the tongue as an aid to double tonguing. The first step is to focus on the [...]

Hornmasters on Double and Triple Tonguing. Part II: Yancich, Fox, and Berv

PUBLISHED: December 16, 2011, John Ericson

In part I Schuller and Farkas ultimately come across as not being big advocates of multiple tonguing. Today we turn a corner however and arrive at sources a bit more committed to learning the skill. Milan Yancich in A Practical Guide to French Horn Playing has a section of exercises to develop triple and double [...]

Hornmasters on Double and Triple Tonguing. Part I: Schuller and Farkas

PUBLISHED: December 14, 2011, John Ericson

While long considered an essential skill for the trumpet player, double and triple tonguing has traditionally been considered optional for horn players. Gunther Schuller in Horn Technique introduces the topic of double and triple tonguing as follows. Some players are gifted with extremely fast-moving and agile tongue muscles. Others are more sluggish in this respect…. [...]

An Inside Look at Double and Triple Tonguing

PUBLISHED: December 12, 2011, John Ericson

Over a year ago the focus of an article on breaking the embouchure was an X-ray video of a horn player which showed the jaw motion clearly. But a lot more can be gleaned from this same video, which was filmed as a part of Joseph A. Meidt’s 1967 dissertation, “A Cinefluorographic Investigation of Oral [...]

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Hornmasters on Staccato, Part II: Fox, Berv, and Hill

PUBLISHED: December 8, 2011, John Ericson

Staccato tonguing is a problem for many horn students. In part I of this article Farkas and Schuller laid out their approaches to teaching this, approaches that sound right on paper but in reality are confusing to many readers. The problem being that they ignore a a physiological reality of staccato on the horn that [...]

Hornmasters on Staccato, Part I: Farkas and Schuller

PUBLISHED: December 6, 2011, John Ericson

Continuing on the topic of tonguing, we finally turn officially to staccato tonguing. There are speaking broadly two approaches to staccato presented in horn methods. One of those approaches I strongly agree with and the other I can see their point but … well, more on what I think later. First up are two big [...]

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