John Ericson

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How Much Should an Advanced Horn Player Practice?

From the archive of the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, dated 10/1/04, this article outlines a general approach to practice. At the time at...

Understanding Stopped Horn

Tucked away in a corner of Horn Articles Online for many years was an article on Understanding Stopped and Muted Horn and Right-Hand Position....

Hornmasters: Brophy on Buzzing

William R. Brophy wrote Technical Studies for Solving Special Problems on the Horn (1977) during his tenure as Professor of Horn at Ohio University....

The Retronome

In my office you will find me using on a daily basis this “antique” metronome which students I have heard sometimes refer to as...

Hornmasters Extra: An Update from Robinson on the Aperture

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

From the Mailbag: The Five Valve Single B-Flat

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...

Hornmasters: Farkas and Schuller on Jaw Position

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...

Joy on the Balanced Embouchure

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...

A Very French Villanelle

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

This one simple trick will make your valves move much faster

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

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