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Hornmasters: Merewether on Right Hand Position

PUBLISHED: June 4, 2010, John Ericson

Richard Merewether, as a horn designer, has an interesting perspective on hand position in The horn, the horn…. In the day-to-day activity of assisting players of many nationalities and every stage of attainment in the choice of an instrument (whether of our own or other make), PAXMAN are in a unique position to have observed [...]

Nickel Silver and Horns

PUBLISHED: May 18, 2010, John Ericson

One question that comes up periodically is that of what nickel silver is and why some horns are made of nickel silver and some of brass. Silver musical instruments are seen fairly often outside of horn actually but normally they are brass that has been plated with silver. Nickel silver is a different material that [...]

Hornmasters: Merewether, Tuckwell, and Bushhouse on Care and Maintenance

PUBLISHED: April 8, 2010, John Ericson

This brief series on care and maintenance concludes today with notes from three more classic horn publications. Richard Merewether in The horn, the horn…, after explaining how to oil valve bearings and linkages, adds a note of caution about clanking valves. It must be borne in mind that any undue clicking in a valve-movement denotes [...]

Hornmasters: Merewether on Horns

PUBLISHED: March 13, 2010, John Ericson

Richard Merewether writes at length about horn design in The horn, the horn… Merewether was for many years also a professional hornist in Australia and England and a horn designer for Paxman. The period when he wrote The horn, the horn… (1978) was after partial blindness had forced him to limit his horn playing and [...]

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Gail Williams on Free Buzzing and Right Hand Position

PUBLISHED: September 18, 2008, John Ericson

A topic in a number of lessons this week has been right hand position. Something I referenced in these lessons was the quote in the following post, which originally appeared on 1/19/06 in the old version of this blog. There are already articles in my main site on buzzing and on right hand position, but this past weekend at [...]

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