John Ericson

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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...

Bruce and John FAQ

So, you have started a huge new horn website! How did you meet? We met in real life in 1984. That year Bruce was a...

Farkas and the Art of Marketing II

In the comments to my recent post on the Reynolds Pottag Model horn (seen below) I quoted what Farkas said was his goal in...

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