John Ericson

Using the Horn Harmonics device to Find Custom Stopped Horn Fingerings

Several years ago I was given a sample of a wheel-like device for finding alternate fingerings called Horn Harmonics . At the time I...

The Audience Thought You Were Nervous

About this time of year I always find some students are getting rather stiff in the chops, which leads to a discussion of how...

The Rosetti Horn Concertos

A good question you can ask a “horn expert” if you want to totally stump them is “how many horn concertos did Rosetti write?” This...

Videos from BlackJack Mouthpieces, and the Ultimate Mellophone Mouthpiece

One great series of videos on YouTube are Trumpet Tips from Jeffrey Curnow, Associate Principal Trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra. A good introduction generally...

Download the Original Kopprasch Etudes

Perhaps the oldest of the "old standard" horn etudes are the Kopprasch etudes. Back in 1997 my article on the history of the Kopprasch...

Copyright and the PDF Maxime-Alphonse Etudes

Looking over the search terms coming in to Horn Matters I know the word is out that there is a place you can find...

Poulenc Thinks Horn Players Might Drag

This coming weekend I am performing the Poulenc Sextet on a faculty recital at Arizona State, the recital of oboe colleague Martin Schuring. This...

Marketing Blunder: The Holton VD Mouthpiece

This post could also be subtitled “How Not to Market a Mouthpiece.” With the information I have at hand I can’t pin down the...

Why do we have Old Notation Bass Clef?

One of the reasons I love working on the Neuling low horn etudes with advanced horn students is they will not only work your...

Review: A Soft Stand for your Horn

I was recently contacted by the maker of Soft Stands to try their horn stand. Looking at their site, it looked like an interesting...