John Ericson

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One thing not often encountered today are the very different "schools" of horn playing of days gone by, one of the most distinctive of...

Over the years I have any number of times discovered students who had valves on their instrument that, while not actually sticking, were gummy...

Continuing our series from classic horn text the next topic is the aperture or more properly aperture control, which is a key element for...

Not long ago over on Facebook there were a series of comments on a photo of a roughly 1950s high school horn section along...

A question came in about mouthpieces, as in should you use a big mouthpiece on a big horn and a small mouthpiece on a...

Among the articles here few have generated so much discussion as the the recent ones that addressed the topic of the embouchure break. It...

Julia Rose posted to her site recently a very interesting article on "Audition Fads." In it she touched on several topics but I would...

I have been playing some on a vintage Hoyer (East German era) that is owned by ASU. The ergonomics of this double horn are...

In the first paragraph of an NPR article we learn "One musician in Connecticut learned the hard way about the dangers of not cleaning...

A topic I recently promised to return to and expand upon was that of breaking the embouchure. It is another of those hot topics...

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