--- "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/yorkmasterbbb%40yahoo.com >
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