In a message dated 07/06/2008 15:09:14 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Are you sure? I started off in the UK on a piston valve left handed horn in high Eb, which I was told was a "tenor horn". I'm not sure what that instrument would be - was it shaped like a french horn? (even the old tenor cor, although shaped like a french horn, was played with the right hand). The British brass band tenor horn is pitched in Eb and is fingered with the right hand. It sounds a tone lower than the french horn in F, but is pitched an octave lower in the harmonic series ie written C is fingered open, D is 1st&3rd etc like the same notes an octave lower on the french horn. (I'm talking F horn fingering). Many young players start on the tenor horn then transfer to other instruments later (I started on one of these things in fact) I think the use of "tenor" rather than "alto", stems from the fact that in a brass quartet of two cornets, tenor horn and euphonium (or trombone) this is the instrument which would play the tenor line, the alto line being taken by the second cornet. (And for those who object to the term "french" horn, I acknowledge that our instrument should rightly be called simply, "the horn", but in this particular case I think it helps to clarify exactly what I'm talking about.) Cheers, Lawrence lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
