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Horns on the Recital III: Double Horns

PUBLISHED: September 11, 2010, John Ericson

With being committed to at the least the early horns in the prior posts on my fall recital (here and here) the final goal in selecting horns was to try to pick horns that would allow the smoothest transition in and out of those horns. And I wanted to explore the possibility of using another [...]

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Doubling

A Trumpet Mouthpiece I can Manage

PUBLISHED: February 19, 2010, John Ericson

For years and years I felt that I simply sounded awful on trumpet. This year however with the retirement of our longtime trombone professor Gail Wilson I took over leading the brass methods classes and with that, I also checked out a trumpet to give it another try. I started on trumpet in 6th grade [...]

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Curry, Doubling

Orchestra 101: Overscale and Doubling

PUBLISHED: November 5, 2009, John Ericson

Today we look at two types of extra payments beyond base pay scale in an orchestra, overscale and doubling. While any player can try to negotiate a special contract, Principal and Assistant Principal players in the Nashville contracts that I have been referencing in this series were guaranteed a minimum overscale; Principal players 25% and [...]

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Doubling, Orchestra, Orchestra 101

Can You Play Trumpet and Horn?

PUBLISHED: May 30, 2007, John Ericson

I received a question from a reader that noted I taught horn and trumpet when I taught in Taiwan for a year. He was asking what I did in terms of mouthpieces and doubling? This type of question comes up pretty often and I don’t believe I have put anything down about it yet. What [...]

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Doubling
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