John Ericson

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Brief Notes on Piston Valve Horns

An unexpected benefit of teaching at ASU is that they own a pair of piston valved horns, an early 20th century Hawkes single horn...

My Crooked Rotary Valve Horn

As I think back on it many summers I have had a “project” of some sort. This summer I plan to play quite a...

On the Classic or Concert Mellophone

Recently I was asked by a colleague, Jill Sullivan, to identify the backwards horns in some of the band photographs she had come across...

Mailbag: Hand Horn Technique and the Baroque Horn

I recently had several natural horn related questions forwarded by a blog reader, one of which was about if right hand technique was used...

Tip: Keep a Mute in Your Car

Since the time I played in The Nashville Symphony I have kept a mute in the back of the car. The idea is that if...

Yet Another “Deadly Sin” of Horn Playing

Another post from the archive, originally posted to the Horn Notes Blog on 1/9/06. A year ago I wrote of how I had enjoyed a...

“Seven Deadly Sins” of Horn Playing

Originally posted to the old HTML Horn Notes Blog on 1/10/05, this is one of my favorite posts ever. An event known as "A.I.R. Horns"...

Echo Horn and the Villanelle

The second of two posts on performing Dukas Villanelle, posted on 10/7/05 in the original Horn Notes Blog. The first article is here. A couple...

Dukas Villanelle and the Natural Horn

The first of two posts on performing Dukas Villanelle, posted on 9/18/05 in the original Horn Notes Blog Villanelle by Paul Dukas is certainly among...

Podcast on The Brass Gym

The episode of The MelloCast for this week, episode 46, focuses on The Brass Gym for horn, a comprehensive book and CD for warm-up...

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