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From the Mailbag: Single B-flat, F Extension — Why?

PUBLISHED: June 14, 2011, John Ericson

This one has a pretty quick answer but is a great question as it relates to my IHS presentation next week and is something for sure people wonder about when considering a single B-flat horn. There are two main elements to the answer. First, the F extension is really handy for low notes. If you have [...]

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Playing on Piston Valves, a King Mellophone, and the IYM

PUBLISHED: May 31, 2011, John Ericson

As I have been preparing for my session at the IHS symposium that involves performing on a vintage piston valve horn, I have been playing on piston valves quite a bit. Piston valves are very interesting animals if you have basically only used rotary valves for years. As I have commented elsewhere, they feel quite [...]

The Baby B-flat Horn

PUBLISHED: April 10, 2011, John Ericson

While not the first horn of the type, this video is a very nice short introduction to this new model and is a type of video it would be great to see made more often by horn makers. According to the YouTube listing in this video “Designer and master craftsman Peter Pollard presents a short [...]

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Beginners, Single horns

The Super Single B-flat

PUBLISHED: March 1, 2011, John Ericson

Besides presenting a session I will also be performing on the Friday evening concert at the Southeast Horn Workshop this weekend. As I have several different horns I play regularly, part of deciding what to play was deciding what horn to play it on. I decided to opt for my Paxman compensating triple with it [...]

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Descants & Triples, Single horns

From the Mailbag: The Five Valve Single B-Flat

PUBLISHED: October 3, 2010, John Ericson

A while back I had a question come in on the 5-valve single B-flat horn. These are still made but they are not common and were somewhat more common back in the day. As to how they sound, I have tried horns of this type and they have a lot of the sound of a [...]

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An Old Hüttl Horn

PUBLISHED: September 21, 2010, John Ericson

Not long ago over on Facebook there were a series of comments on a photo of a roughly 1950s high school horn section along the lines of “what is that odd horn?” It was a horn of this design, another example of which may be found on the cover of the Anton Horner Primary Studies, [...]

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Horns on the Recital II: Single Horns

PUBLISHED: September 5, 2010, John Ericson

After the natural horn the next phase of the story of the horn to feature on the recital this year is the early valved horn. For this phase I also had several options as to horns. ASU owns a couple of piston valve horns and the single horn in this article was given a good [...]

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