John Ericson

The past year the vast majority of my actual classical music listening has been to LP records. With the recent passing of Hermann Baumann...

To open this brief review, I’ll start with a money quote: The Horn by Renato Meucci and Gabriele Rocchetti is the most significant book on...

Continuing our look at accuracy and the letters D and E, our first topic is the descant horn, which can certainly help accuracy in...

This year I've been listening mostly to LP recordings in my office. In my collection, I have a number of different Mozart concerto recordings,...

In Part I (here) I mentioned that I only recently have had the opportunity to play a Vienna horn that, to my feeling of...

Astute readers of Horn Matters might have noticed that I have rarely written about Vienna horns. Not that there is no content, but relative...

We now come to the letter C. There are several entries under the letter C in the book draft, thoughts to consider that will...

Some more memes from my fall meme project. Brief comments after each one. My story with Kopprasch 1. You? This is a quote from the Farquarson...

Back in 2014 I posted an article (here) comprised of "Hornist Hamster" memes that were all Verne Reynolds quotes. It is kind of a...

The related topics of playing short notes and tonguing quickly come up in lessons all the time. At some point every horn player must learn...