My 9 year old daughter is just starting to play. She can hold a single F more correctly than she can a double. She doesn't know the difference in how an F horn or Bb horn would play, and is not bemoaning the fact that the F horn is harder than a Bb horn would be. She does know that it will take a certain amount of work to make progress on anything that is difficult at first. She knows that you have to be able to get a sound out of the mouthpiece alone (which is neither in Bb nor F) in order to get one out of the horn. She doesn't have a fingering chart to look at, and doesn't need one. I tell her how to play the notes she needs and she remembers. She sounds like you would expect a third grader to sound, and doesn't mind a bit.
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