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April 3, 1986

PUBLISHED: April 3, 2010, John Ericson

A post saved from the original Horn Notes Blog, posted first on 12/26/04. In terms of horn playing 1986 was a good year for me. Just before Christmas this year (2004) I was at my parents house sorting out some stored items from the 1980s and in particular April 3, 1986 was in retrospect a [...]

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Bruce Hembd, David Hickman

Audition Overload

PUBLISHED: October 31, 2009, John Ericson

I judged two concerto competitions on Thursday, which reminded me of this post full of tips on taking all types of auditions from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, dated 3/14/06. The trip up to the mountains yesterday to see the snow with my family has helped me recover from to the point I can write [...]

The Neill Sanders Mouthpiece

PUBLISHED: September 29, 2009, John Ericson
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One unique and classic line of mouthpieces was produced into the late 1980s by hornist Neill Sanders. Perhaps most remembered for giving a bit more comfort to students with braces, this wide rim horn mouthpiece is one that if you have ever seen one you will remember it. This photo is of an example that [...]

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David Hickman, Moosewood

After the Last Jury for Gail Wilson

PUBLISHED: May 13, 2009, John Ericson

With graduation today at Arizona State University the big news is President Obama giving the commencement address outdoors at Sun Devil stadium in near 100 degree weather! But for me professionally the big event will be the fine arts convocation on Thursday, as an era will formally end and a new one begins. Professor Gail [...]

Hickman on Tongue Arch

PUBLISHED: June 15, 2008, John Ericson

The topic of tongue arch and tongue position in the very high range came up for me recently, and in looking into resources at hand I again turned to Trumpet Pedagogy, a publication by David Hickman. While in this he presents a wide variety of systems and approaches to every aspect of playing (a strong [...]

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Articulation, David Hickman

The Floating-Jaw Embouchure

PUBLISHED: June 7, 2008, John Ericson

Yesterday I had a question about a type of trumpet pedagogy that I wanted to research and I turned to this book, one I posted about first on 10/11/06 in what was the last post in my original blog.  My ASU trumpet colleague David Hickman has out a new book, Trumpet Pedagogy, which is described [...]

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Two Things from a Trumpet Class

PUBLISHED: April 18, 2008, John Ericson

I often say that you can pick up a lot from other brass players. Soloist and Arizona State University Regents Professor of trumpet David Hickman gave on Wednesday a version of his presentation/demonstration for the ITG conference this summer for our Brass Area. In it there were two points that stood out for me. 1. [...]

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