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A Blast from the Past: The Altonium

PUBLISHED: July 1, 2010, John Ericson

Depending on your age and background the Altonium could be seen as odd, rare, cool, cute, or as an old friend from back in the day. The Altonium as a middle brass instrument had/has several advantages. I was recently able to borrow this example of one produced fairly late in the game, but unmarked as [...]

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An Advocate for the Alto Horn in 1968

PUBLISHED: May 25, 2010, John Ericson

In 1990 a wonderful brass resource was published, Brass Bibliography: Sources on the History, Literature, Pedagogy, Performance, and Acoustics of Brass Instruments by Mark J. Fasman. It is a very comprehensive resource that lists virtually every article and book of any interest for brass published between 1820 and 1988. Horn Matters is not all horn [...]

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On Playing Tubas Large and Small

PUBLISHED: April 22, 2010, John Ericson

This weekend I will be at the Northwest Horn Symposium and one of my topics is the Wagner tuba, on which I will present and perform. These few weeks I have played tubas large and small. On the large end, one day a week I have been joining the tuba portion of the low brass [...]

Review: A Complete Guide to Brass?

PUBLISHED: April 22, 2009, John Ericson

As I will soon become brass department chair at Arizona State I recently obtained a copy of the Scott Whitener book A Complete Guide to Brass. I will oversee the brass methods courses at ASU next year and this is used as a text. I did not use it when taught this course at the [...]

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Photos of Lots and Lots of Antique Horns

PUBLISHED: March 26, 2009, John Ericson

The Horn-U-Copia site was recently redesigned, and as a part of their updates they now have databases of photos of all sorts of antique brasses. The instrument illustrated with this post for example is an Alexander single B-flat in the classic Sansone model with an A/stopping valve and an F extension. You can get to [...]

Kruspe 1930 Catalog Illustrations

PUBLISHED: November 30, 2008, John Ericson

I love old horns. One of those magical names among horn makers of the past is that of Kruspe. A leading horn maker in the early 20th century (and still in business today), they were the original maker of the double horn, filing for the patent on October 5, 1897. They made many different models of [...]

The Ultimate Off Beat Playing Machine

PUBLISHED: October 15, 2008, John Ericson
Conn E-flat Alto horn

Last week I subbed twice in a brass band on E-flat tenor (alto) horn, for a project underway with the ASU bands. I have played in brass bands before, but always on a normal French horn. The one thing that really struck me was playing on marches in particular; you can really kick out those [...]

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