John Ericson

Congratulations IHS! And looking toward the next 50

A milestone that has passed is the 50th anniversary of the founding of the International Horn Society. Congratulations! While it was founded at the...

Review update: Horn Playing from the Inside Out, Third Edition eBook

New for 2021 is an updated version of Horn Playing from the Inside Out by Eli Epstein. While we don’t often do reviews, this...

Sabbatical Extra: A Yamaha Conversion Horn, and Revisiting the Ascending Third Valve, part 2

During my sabbatical semester from Arizona State I looked briefly at one of the horns I had worked on, how I could set it...

Using drones to improve warmup and practice of etudes and excerpts

As we come out of this year of not great practice it is very important to have drones be part of your daily practice...

A new personal website — is it also time for you?

For me this summer was the time to build one. Although I had one of the first personal horn websites out there -- 1998!...

Revisiting an Old Huttl Horn

Back more than ten years ago I posted a short article an interesting old Huttl horn. It was one obtained from a former teacher...

Two new podcasts looking at excerpts and a teaching method

Two podcast episodes are the result of one of my regular summer projects, which is working slowly through my old cassette tapes of performances,...

Podcast: Warming up on the F horn, getting back in shape

Recently I posted two new episodes of the Horn Notes Podcast, looking at topics of our time, getting back in shape after the pandemic...

Sabbatical Finale: Finishing the Geyer

As mentioned in the previous installment, I located (on eBay) the remains of a Geyer single F horn, minus the original bell (which had...

Horn Etudes by Women Composers

Many Horn Matters readers will be familiar with the Works with Horn by Women Composers website by Dr. Lin Foulk. If not, this is...