Why still keeping these junk horns or horn ruins ? Convert them to lamps instead playing them.
There are no really bad horns, but a majority of weak players. Their weakness starts with their negligence to principles of playing & maintaining their instruments or setting them in proper playing conditions. Why are they out of tune many times ? Because the valve slides are not set properly but shoved in as much as possible. Why are they too sharp & too pinchy in tone ? Because the player use a very thin bore mouth piece as they have their problems with notes exceeding written e2 or f2. How to help ? Using a regular mouth piece with a 4.3 - 5 mms bore, not forcing the high register, not playing loud all the time. Gaining high register by playing low notes right. Why is the attack so difficult ? Because players croach into the mouthpiece with their upper AND lower lip so to block the hole in the middle. Understood. Then they have to push a lot of air & very hard, to open the HOLE in the middle. This results in the PLOP at the beginning of the sound they produce & name tone, but it is rather a fart (in the positive sense, as it is produced in a similar way). And the attack becomes more difficult, if the players use trumpetlike rims on their mouthpieces instead of smaller rims, which hurt if the pressure exceeds the normal pressure. Why do they press too much ? Because they do not practise enough or in improper way. They often practise things they do not need as they work anyway. So they waste time & embouchure strength, much needed to practice things they cannot do well yet. It is a brain matter. But they like to please themselves by playing the same things again & again, which they can do well anyway. If any player, good or less good, advanced or beginner, tries to explore the horn first with the natural harmonics playing softly, and listen where the pitches are & how they are, if they try first to play soft & slow things to get used to the instrument, they can play in a decent manner on ANY horn. Well, leakness is another matter, a technical matter, which cannot be calculated here. I speak about ANY horn in a decent condition. ============================================================ =================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 5:08 AM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] Re: start off on an F horn? In a message dated 3/4/06 1:00:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, Bill Gross writes: > Not sure of your point here. The implication is that if not all F > horns are good, B flat horns might be. Could you clarify it? > Nope, just that there are a lot of crummy F horns out there that even Hans couldn't play, well maybe HE could but nobody else could. Get a good F horn and make music! - Steve Mumford _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
