John Ericson

Bruce Richards posted an article very recently to Living the Dream on the topic of horn player tendinitis. Richards and I go way back...

As a prelude to his general discussion of tonguing in Chapter 9 of The Art of French Horn Playing, at the end of Chapter...

In my earlier article on European shank horn mouthpieces I noted that mouthpieces of this type have a larger shank and are designed...

An article from the original HTML Horn Notes Blog, dated 2/3/05, on a timeless topic. One of the advantages of studying with a competent horn...

Continuing our look at slurs, Berv and Reynolds have some important things to add on the topic. Leverage and tongue arch For Harry Berv in A...

Buying a horn there are a lot of questions to weigh and consider, especially for the more advanced player. Regular readers know that I...

Back earlier this year in an article I described my compensating triple as being sort of a super single B-flat horn. But there is...

Continuing our series on the topic of the slur, air, and vowels, Milan Yancich has an interesting angle on the “wah-wah” problem in the...

Following up on the Golden Clam for the Boldin Kopprasch project, one thing I would think many of you out there have noticed is the markings in...

We return to the Hornmasters series this time looking at topics related to the lyric side of playing the horn, beginning with slurs, air,...