John Ericson

Chapter four of The Art of French Horn Playing is on the topic of fingerings and tuning as Farkas felt that “these two subjects...

Recently I have had the opportunity to try this great example of an althorn. This particular one is in F and was made by...

Miles Davis Birth of the Cool-- this 1957 album is considered one of the most influential jazz albums ever. It is a compilation of singles...

The Public Service Announcement of the weekend is on the topic of tonguing. There is a lot of dogma on tonguing out there to...

A few days ago I saw a link to an interesting article with the title "Study: highly-rated professors are. . . overrated." The article...

Our last post in this portion of the Hornmasters series on right hand position features quotes from two very different, classic horn texts that...

One section that was cut from a draft of my mellophone book was a section on the mellophone toss. While I don’t recommend it...

Different brands of different horns have their quirks. One quirk on some Geyer style horns is that they may have a squirrelly high B-flat....

One of my younger students was fascinated by my pencil clip. This is really a must have item for the horn player. It is...

I was recently contacted by a parent who had a child that had been asked to switch from trumpet to mellophone for marching band....