John Ericson

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The Mouthpiece Wheel of Doom

The topic of Episode 94 of The Mellocast is the Mouthpiece Wheel of Doom. It is a term jazz hornist Mark Taylor uses relating...

Farkas and a Blood Oath to use the F Horn?

The Nancy Jordan Fako book Philip Farkas & His Horn has quite a few little known facts and scenes from the career and training...

Got Dimes?

Many players struggle along to varying degrees with an instrument that does not fit their hands well. The instrument may actually feel “normal” but...

Improvise your Cadenza

One thing that students hate to do is write their own cadenza. Once they get going they usually find it is not that hard...

Muted or Open (or Stopped?) in Symphonie Fantastique?

Following up on the topic of stopped horn in Brahms, there is a related issue in the famous "March to the Scaffold" movement of...

Stopped Horn Notations in Academic Festival Overture by Brahms

One major work with notations in the horn part that have confused many are the unusual stopped horn notations in the Academic Festival Overture...

From the Mailbag: Is Using the Assistant Horn Cheating?

I had a question come in recently on the use of the assistant first horn. I actually wrote a full article on this topic...

Conductors Say the Darndest Things II

The great American horn teacher Philip Farkas had a story about water in the horn that he loved to tell. Nancy Fako relates the...

Photogenic natural horn with 4 couplers stacked up (does not work that way!)

In certain books on the horn you will find photos of a horn built on the same general system as this one below. It is...

Farkas on Lip “Curling”

I spent the summer looking at many different books on horn playing in depth. Farkas in print was not into the whole concept of...

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