John Ericson

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One of the great things for Bruce and I is we hear from some of the greats of horn teaching and playing who do...

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...

Jaw Position. Seems like a simple topic, and it is the next topic to address in this series looking at classic horn texts. Two different...

Over the summer an interview was posted with hornist Andrew Joy on high-c.com. Joy mentioned The Balanced Embouchure as a factor in his current...

One thing not often encountered today are the very different "schools" of horn playing of days gone by, one of the most distinctive of...

Over the years I have any number of times discovered students who had valves on their instrument that, while not actually sticking, were gummy...

Continuing our series from classic horn text the next topic is the aperture or more properly aperture control, which is a key element for...

Not long ago over on Facebook there were a series of comments on a photo of a roughly 1950s high school horn section along...

A question came in about mouthpieces, as in should you use a big mouthpiece on a big horn and a small mouthpiece on a...

Among the articles here few have generated so much discussion as the the recent ones that addressed the topic of the embouchure break. It...

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