SubCategory Archive (tags): ‘Richard Seraphinoff’

What is an Authentic Sound?

PUBLISHED: August 24, 2010, John Ericson

In late September I will be playing a recital on several different period horns. I will be posting on those in the coming weeks but would first like to step back and begin with a comparison of a few important construction details of the modern horn and the hand horn that relate to the bigger [...]

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Got Dimes?

PUBLISHED: September 15, 2009, John Ericson

Many players struggle along to varying degrees with an instrument that does not fit their hands well. The instrument may actually feel “normal” but there is a new normal that could open up more technique and comfort with some minor adjustments. One of those adjustments is extending the levers to meet the fingers better. Ideally [...]

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Equipment

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Hand position & holding, Richard Seraphinoff

A Natural Horn with Four Couplers Stacked Up

PUBLISHED: September 6, 2009, John Ericson

In certain books on the horn there are photos of a horn built on the same general system as this one. It is made to use crooks and couplers to be placed in every possible key, and is an ingenious system actually. This instrument I made using the same system with the help of natural [...]

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Richard Seraphinoff

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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Annamia Larsson, Horn ensemble, Horn stuff on the web, Jeff Snedeker, Nicholas Smith, Richard Seraphinoff, Teachers, Wagner

Adult Fans of the Single F Horn

PUBLISHED: October 30, 2008, John Ericson

I am a fan of all types of horns, and certainly single F horns and especially Vienna horns have a following. There are many reasons for this. Besides being cheap beginner instruments, there are reasons why a mature player might also want to play a single F horn. One school of thought is for example [...]

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Richard Seraphinoff, Single horns, Vienna horn

Natural Horn Recordings, Methods, More

PUBLISHED: March 30, 2007, John Ericson

Although there have not been many comments yet on the “new” blog (it was impossible to leave comments on the original HTML blog), I have enjoyed reading the comments that have been made. A couple of them thus far have been related to the natural horn. In a post on My favorite horn recording I [...]

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Etudes & methods, Hermann Baumann, Richard Seraphinoff