John Ericson

What Was the Omnitonic Horn?

When you get to looking at horn history there are many rabbit holes to explore, many little dead end trails of horn design. Some...

Making a Crook for a Natural Horn

This article was posted in a corner of Horn Articles Online back in 2008. In editing Horn Matters articles with links to the now...

How Bells are Cut

The original version of this article, posted in Horn Articles Online probably around the year 2000 (!), had the subtitle "Don't try this at...

Big News from 1897: The Invention of the Double Horn, the “Horn of the...

For generations of horn players now the double horn has always been there, has always been the standard instrument we play. It's interesting, however,...

Reverse tuning slides and the horn

I had a vague idea that there was such a thing as a "reverse leadpipe" on the trumpet, but had never really given it...

On the Brahms Horn Trio

This article was for many years posted as part of a longer article on Horn Articles Online. A version of these materials was also...

The Heinrich Domnich Methode and the Natural Horn

This article is based on materials published in The Horn Call Annual 8 (1996) with additional materials from my 1995 dissertation. It's a bit...

The Little Descants

This article was originally posted (in a somewhat hidden location) in Horn Articles Online, as bonus content to my 2007 high horn book. While...

Fundamentals 18B. Key signature

Another element of the 18th fundamental in the list of 25 fundamentals by Douglas Hill (his book is the source of the prompts for...

New Recordings of Two Works for Horn and Fixed Media from the 1970s

There were two Doctoral graduates from the ASU horn studio this year. The first of the Doctoral projects was described here, and the second...