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Eight Ways to Improve Your Accuracy

PUBLISHED: September 23, 2007, John Ericson

I recently heard it said that readers love articles that are based on lists. There are many ways to work on accuracy, but these eight are all important elements to focus upon. 1. Buzz more often on the mouthpiece alone. When you miss something, buzz it on mouthpiece right away, you will quickly see why [...]

Playing the Schubert Octet

PUBLISHED: September 18, 2007, John Ericson

Horn ensemble fans when they think of the Schubert Octet may think of Nachtgesang im Walde, the arrangement for 8 horns of a work of Schubert for four horns and men’s chorus. I like the work a lot with a large horn ensemble, I wrote about it in a Horn Call article from an historical [...]

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A Lunch with President Crow

PUBLISHED: September 17, 2007, John Ericson

Today ASU President Michael Crow had a special lunch meeting, which I attended, for the twenty-seven newly tenured faculty at ASU. (I was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in the spring). It is always interesting to go to a meeting like this with faculty from many departments. As the meeting began we each [...]

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Pitch in Relation to Fingerings

PUBLISHED: September 3, 2007, John Ericson

A topic that has come to mind for me recently is facility in the use of alternate fingerings. Some teachers really push this, especially facility in B-flat horn alternate fingerings. But my teachers did not. Which is fine but, as a result, I have at this time excellent facility in double horn and triple horn [...]

How do you Clean the Leadpipe if There is a Valve in the Middle of it?

PUBLISHED: August 3, 2007, John Ericson

This question was posed to me today and I realized there is nothing in my writings that address this question, one that does come up. You don’t want a lot to build up and cake in there over years of use on any horn but especially on a triple or descant that has a valve [...]

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All in the High F Family

PUBLISHED: July 6, 2007, John Ericson

One thing perhaps not obvious from my recent mellophone posts is I am actually very familiar with the high F tube length, as I have for the past three years been working on large project related to high horn playing, descant, and triple horns, which has included several workshop presentations. Mellophones are a part of [...]

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Triple Horns are Taking Over

PUBLISHED: January 20, 2007, John Ericson
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Every month I am sure triple horn history is being made in the USA; at the professional level triples are being used more and more. This week in January of 2007 marked a new milestone in triple horn use in Phoenix; four of the seven horns playing The Planets with The Phoenix Symphony were using [...]

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