Why not treat it like Algebra:

T123 where T = Bb

Or perhaps even better:

Bb - 123
F - 123
A - 12
F ex. - 12

-William

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Phillips <[email protected]>
To: The Horn List <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 9:47 am
Subject: [Hornlist] Interesting IHS Forum post


Ricardo Matoshinos has made an interesting post on the IHS Forum 
(http://www.hornsociety.org/en/network/ihs-forum) about notation of horn 
fingerings using T to indicate Bb horn. He makes the following statement:

"Today most of the world play mostly in Bb-F horn instead of the traditional 
F-Bb so now in fact thumb means F horn..."

While I certainly agree that T notation is ambiguous and should, for that 
reason, be avoided in any kind of international context, I wonder if the above 
statement is true?

IHS members, feel free to comment directly in the thread on the forum :-)

Dan

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Dan Phillips
Associate Professor
Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music
University of Memphis
www.prizmensemble.com

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