SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Horn stuff on the web’

Notes from IHS 41

PUBLISHED: June 2, 2009, John Ericson

I am in Macomb, Illinois at the 41st International Horn Symposium. I will be very busy at the event but will try to post daily updates to this post during the week, to give a bit of an online insight into the event. If you are not here, try to get to a future symposium and also [...]

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A Hosaphone™ Travel Horn

PUBLISHED: June 23, 2008, John Ericson

When I was a Doctoral student I traveled one time from IU to the Historic Brass Society event in Amherst with Rick Seraphinoff and Viola Roth by car. To keep in shape on the road Rick had developed a “crook” that was mostly made out of half inch vinyl tube that plugged into a natural [...]

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On the New Books

PUBLISHED: February 24, 2008, John Ericson

I am pleased to report first that all of my new publications are selling. I have sold the most copies of Playing High Horn, with all the rest coming to nearly the same level of sales. The Southeast Horn Workshop last weekend was the first event where the books have been displayed and I ended [...]

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About The Mellocast

PUBLISHED: January 25, 2008, John Ericson

Episode 35 of The Mellocast is an interview with me that touches not only on the specifics of my new book A Mello Catechism but also gives background information on why I wrote all of my new publications and much more. It is my overall hope with all of these publications to impact mid-range teaching [...]

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A Tale of Cover Stock

PUBLISHED: December 11, 2007, John Ericson

Developing the first four publications with Horn Notes Edition we looked over a lot of other publications and had a sense of what we wanted it to look like. In particular my wife and I both really liked the cover stock used by Birdalone Music in their Mozart concerto publications. These were printed some years [...]

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RIP Horn Players’ FAQ

PUBLISHED: November 24, 2007, John Ericson

As many know, a classic horn site, The Horn Players’ FAQ, is no longer. It was active from 1995 until July of 2007 and when launched it was an extremely useful resource for horn players. Ron Boerger wrote in the farewell note posted there that When this FAQ was created, it represented the only widely-used [...]

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