I'm sure that's certainly theoretically all true, I'm just saying that in my 
experience, having heard people do it with double horns, there was a 
difference.  Everybody else's mileage may vary of course.

- Steve Mumford

In a message dated 9/7/05 1:00:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jrc in SC
 writes:


> This would mean that, on a standard F-horn, you can hear a tonal
> difference between 1st-space F# and the 2nd-line G just above it. That
> would be a player problem, would it not? Assuming that one "crooks" the
> F-horn into E when simply playing our written B-natural scale, then, as
> Hans has pointed out, when you think about which notes are actually
> being played using what fingerings, there's more difference to be heard
> in the overall key of the ensemble being E (instead of F) than you would
> (should) notice in a the timbre of the horn alone.
> 


_______________________________________________
post: [email protected]
unsubscribe or set options at 
http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org

Reply via email to