As your grandson has played trumpet for years, he could play his Bb-side with the trumpet fingerings, and the sonic result would be Horn in Bb Basso, sounding an octave below the trumpet like a circular Bb baritone.
Whether that is good from a pedagogical and sound development point of view is quite a different matter to be decided by his private instructor/teacher. I started out on a 5 valve single Bb and ended having 4+ octaves minus low written F# (concert B natural). However there are different strategies in approaching the double horn. Some national schools only use the F-side where strictly necessary for lack of notes on the Bb-side. Other schools use more or less fixed breaking points between the two sides. As I understand the virtuoso Hans Pizka, he juggles between the two sides for getting the optimal sound, technical ease, and overall artistic expression in every single musical situation. That of course is a very advanced approach. Not knowing the strategy taught by your grandson's teacher I still would find it a bit sad if your laudable enthusiasm promoted the approach I find the least productive: the double horn being a Bb horn with an almost superfluous appendix in F. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre i Korsør i nabolandet --- Borje Lofblad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a coach to my 13 year old french horn player I have a couple of most > elementary questions : > > 1) I am a trumpet player and like to play duets with my grand son. If he > plays with regular trumpet fingering on the Bb side of his double horn, I > wonder if this will match my Bb trumpet without transposition for me. > > 2) We have just aquirred the Farkas book. I take it the right hand position > he describes is the absolutely correct and the one and only, or are there > alternatives to this hand position. As a beginner on the horn my grand son > tends to hold the right hand on the low side of the bell. I assume this is > not a problem as he so far is not starting to learn the use of the stopping > right hand. I am sure his french horn teacher will take care of this in duen > due time, but nevertheless I am interested in every mattar concerning this > wonderful instrument. > > I beg you to excuse my no knowledge in the french horn playing, but I am > learning, not to play, but the best possible advices. My grand son has > played and studied trumpet since he was 7 , but upon the recommendation from > his brass teacher, he started on the french horn 6 months ago, and is > playing everything he did on the trumpet even better on the french horn. I > should add that his teacher is a french horn player, and that my grand son > always has played with at least 2/3 upper lip, which I have understood is > typical for french horn players, > > Borje > > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/yorkmasterbbb%40yahoo.com > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
