On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Hans Pizka <[email protected]> wrote: > If the horn teaching follows the old days method like e.g. Schantl, it might > not be enough to arrive at a quality like Thomas Joebstl or Manuel Huber > (Vienna Phil). Studying the old way is not that fast as modern ways with > learning the fingerings, but you receive a good feeling about the natural > pitches whereabouts and for a sound horn tone. It is like learning to read. > The old method is slower, much slower, but if you master it, and if you are > patient enough, you will start reading fluently much later but be able to > read complicate foreign names like "Utztalcoatl" or "Przewalski horse" > without difficulties.
-snip- Is this the method book to which you're referring, Hans? http://www.windmusicpublications.com/productpages/frenchhorn.html#schantl1 If so, I will order a copy - it sounds interesting. I confess, although I have only taught a few kids starting off on the French Horn, that their lack of understanding of the natural horn and of the overtone series is frustrating to me. When, e.g., I was helping a neighbor's child who is trying to play a chromatic scale, it seems to me just so very much easier to understand the fingerings if you understand the way the instrument works. -S- _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
