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Lundy and a Professional Approach to Fingerings

PUBLISHED: March 10, 2011, John Ericson

This week we were fortunate to have a guest artist for our horn studio class, Johanna Lundy, Principal Horn of the Tucson Symphony. I taught Johanna at the Brevard Music Center some years back and it was first of all great to hear her play again and speak about her experiences since then. She is [...]

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Fingerings, Tips

Review: Finger Pads for your Valve Levers

PUBLISHED: September 12, 2010, John Ericson

In Horns on the Recital III I noted that I had to make a couple minor changes to the Hoyer. The ergonomics of this vintage double horn are a bit different and in short I could not get the valve levers high enough to suit my big hands. To solve this problem it occurred to [...]

Linking the Ear and the Fingers

PUBLISHED: January 3, 2010, John Ericson

A post from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog from 1/1/05. One way to start the year right is to have the goal of really linking up the ear and the fingers, that is, that the notes you hear can be mentally conceptualized and translated onto the horn quickly and accurately. This connection is something [...]

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Fingerings

Top Twenty Posts from the Horn Notes Blog

PUBLISHED: August 31, 2009, John Ericson

With the launch of Horn Matters it is a great time to look back at the overall stats of the Horn Notes Blog, 2004-2009. By far the number one page in the site was the page of playing tips, which has been transferred over to Horn Matters here. After that, the top seven posts were [...]

Break the “Rules” of Horn Playing

PUBLISHED: July 10, 2009, John Ericson

One thread between several of the recent posts is that in various ways the quotes point to spoken or unspoken “rules” of horn playing that maybe we need to break to actually sound our best. Thinking about pressure especially, I can’t think of any student I have ever had that I honestly thought used too [...]

Hornmasters: Harry Berv on Fingerings

PUBLISHED: July 6, 2009, John Ericson

One name not too familiar today in horn circles in that of Harry Berv. He wrote a rather interesting horn method, published in 1977, A Creative Approach to the French Horn. Harry Berv and his horn playing brothers Arthur and Jack joined the NBC Symphony in 1938, having previously performed in the Philadelphia Orchestra. At [...]

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Fingerings, The Berv Family

Tip of the Month: Fingerings in the Low Range

PUBLISHED: June 16, 2009, John Ericson

One interesting corner of The IHS Online, the website of the International Horn Society, is a section of tips of the month. I was recently asked to supply some new content for this area similar to some of the tips found in this site (for example my post on fingerings above high C). The first [...]

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Fingerings, Low range, Tips
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