Hans Pizka wrote:

> For what purpose did they invent the tumb 
> valve switch ? To make the hornplayers life easier, to use 
> the Bb-side for higher entrances, for higher passages, for 
> some higher soli in piano dynamics, for certain colour 
> effects, for better intonation of several notes, etc.

I thought I'd share my thinking on a fingering choice and see what y'all
say.

Last night I was handed Horn 4 on Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man." My
part opens with the figure F-C-F which also happens several more times.
(First space F, 3rd space C, top line F.)  The rhythm is two sixteenth and
an eighth tied to a longer note, in a fairly slow tempo (quarter is about
50) but it's still pretty quick for me as a novice horn player.

The "by the book" fingering for me, because I usually switch starting with
C# or D, would be to F1, F0, T0 but the figure seems so natural-horn-like
that changing fingerings for every note just seemed wrong.  F1, T0, T0 is
better, but T0 for all three notes is what I've settled on.  I hope this a
good example of "contextual" fingering - I usually play both the first two
notes on the F side but here it doesn't seem right.

I would, if I could, try all three notes as F1, but I think that is much
riskier because it's harmonics 6, 9, 12 versus 4, 6, 8 on the Bb horn.

Hans, et al, how am I doing?

-S-

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