RE: [Hornlist] stopped horn

2007-08-10 Thread hans
Hello Rebecca, it all depends on the size of your hand & the
size of the bell. To get a better result for the "few
occasions" playing stopped very low  - it is rarely in
prominent voice  - use a wooden mute, lift it a bit & play
with an edgy sound. You will be heard better, intonation is
much better, you will gain self confidence for this task.
After experimenting a bit, you will find it the best way.
Nobody will ask you, how you produce the required sounds,
they just listen.


 

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Is there any way I can make the stopping more secure in the
lower register?  It tends to sound more like a bassoon than
a horn down there.
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RE: [Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

2007-08-10 Thread hans
If the horn is laid on the chair upside down, means
valvesection top touching the chair surface, lead pipe
pointing to the "lean" of the chair, there is less chance
that the bell touches the surface of the chair or the edge
of it & thus be damaged on this fragile neck of the bell
flair. The lead pipe is also better protected. Today, a
micro fibre towel of neutral color should be at hand not
just for whiping off finger prints from the horn, but also
to be put between chair surface & horn, to prevent
scratches.

Just the way I do with my horns.

== 

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My two cents worth of almost totally unfounded conjecture.
Perhaps it is from the slipping and sliding of the horn when
being placed on a hard bottom chair? How often do we do this
when we take a break between student or practice sessions,
never mind on stage in the concert hall.

Dan Beeker
Least Principled Horn
BSO


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subject: [Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

Here's a question, perhaps for some of the older members
on the list.  I do a lot of work on horns that are 60 - 100
years old and there's one thing I often see that always
makes me scratch my head and wonder.
If there's a patched hole in the bell flare, it always
seems to be on the opposite side from where I'd expect it to
be.  For instance, I just got in a 90 year old Kruspe and if
you look in the end of the bell with the leadpipe pointing
up, the patch is at about 9:30 (o'clock).  Now I can't find
any hand position that I could wear the bell out there,
other than just putting the palm of my hand there and
holding the horn with it. 
Anyway, I keep seeing the 9:00 patch on these older
horns, and these are often horns that were played by people
with very good professional jobs.
So, was there a hand position used in the "old days" that I
don't know about?  Anybody remember something that their
teacher's teacher's teacher mentioned about it?  
The upside is, now I can play the horn for another 90
years with my hand on the 3:00 side before I wear that side
of the bell out!

- Steve Mumford  


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Re: [Hornlist] stopped horn

2007-08-10 Thread Reba McLaurin
Is there any way I can make the stopping more secure in the lower
register?  It tends to sound more like a bassoon than a horn down
there.


On 8/10/07, hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do not care about this. "Stopped horn" sounds somewhat
> "comical", so these "children" in the orchestras tend to
> lookk for the player, children, who do not understand the
> "stopped horn". Many orchestras consist of a bunch of
> "children" (mentally children).
>
> You have to live with this fact.
>
> PS: Perhaps you do exaggerate the "stopping" where it should
> be most decent ???
>
> 
> 
>
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>
> Whenever I play stopped horn in orchestra everyone turns
> around and glares at me.  Especially if it's a low exposed
> passage.  How can I stop this?
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RE: [Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

2007-08-10 Thread sheldon kirshner
Steve,
In the 30s, 40s, and 50s, there was (so far as I know) a tendency to
play with a darker sound and with contact at 9:00 and loosely open at 3:00.
Also, many people hold the horn free now, but a long time ago, it almost
always rested on the thigh--you can't easily hold it free at 9:00. I have a
Geyer  (built in 1938 or 39) that went through many many seasons at the
CSO--it was Wedgewood's (who was my teacher) and which had a patch at 8:00
when I got it, and which bell had gotten so thin at the area of 9:00 that on
Steve Lewis' recommendation I had the entire interior of the bell silver
plated.  Was there any difference in sound?  None that I could detect.

Shel

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Here's a question, perhaps for some of the older members on the list.  I
do a lot of work on horns that are 60 - 100 years old and there's one thing
I often see that always makes me scratch my head and wonder.
If there's a patched hole in the bell flare, it always seems to be on
the opposite side from where I'd expect it to be.  For instance, I just got
in a 90 year old Kruspe and if you look in the end of the bell with the
leadpipe pointing up, the patch is at about 9:30 (o'clock).  Now I can't
find any hand position that I could wear the bell out there, other than just
putting the palm of my hand there and holding the horn with it. 
Anyway, I keep seeing the 9:00 patch on these older horns, and these are
often horns that were played by people with very good professional jobs.
So, was there a hand position used in the "old days" that I don't know
about?  Anybody remember something that their teacher's teacher's teacher
mentioned about it?  
The upside is, now I can play the horn for another 90 years with my hand
on the 3:00 side before I wear that side of the bell out!

- Steve Mumford  
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[Hornlist] Re: Pedagogical Tools

2007-08-10 Thread Wendell Rider


On Aug 10, 2007, at 6:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



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date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:22:59 +0100
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subject: Re: [Hornlist] Re: Pedagogical Tools


Interestingly, your point about E being flat rather goes against the
idea suggested recently here by Steve Burg (The "Student Question"
thread) that you should play on the F side from second-line G
downwards. Not far below that changeover point you get to the flat
open E on the F side and the notes down to C# that are based on the
same harmonic. The fact that these notes are flat seems to me to be
good reason not to make F/Bb changeover as a matter of course, in
addition to the other points I made against the idea at the time.
Would you agree?


As it happens, when tuning at the start of a rehearsal, I tend to play
either a B or a fourth-space E when tuning to A, in order to play a
note that is higher in the register and therefore can't be bent so
easily.

Regards
Jonathan West

Hi Jonathan (and all),
Thank you for responding in a clear and courteous way. I was hoping  
you wouldn't take what i said personally or in a bad way, and you  
didn't. We do agree on just about everything but maybe this  
conversation will help others think about what they post.
As far as using F horn goes, I have gone in practically all the  
possible ways, aside from playing everything on high f horn, in my  
career. When i was in high school I played practically everything on  
Bb horn because i studied with a trumpet player- a great teacher- who  
liked to find alternate fingerings. I still use (and teach) some of  
the fingerings we worked out on Strauss 2 (and other pieces), and  
these included all F as well as all Bb fingerings on very difficult  
passages.
Much of my time in San Jose Symphony was spent using a Bb/f Paxman  
with an XL bell and a low f extension for my little finger. If you  
think your 3rd finger is weak, try to get your 4th finger into the  
fray! I loved that horn and no one suspected that it wasn't a full  
double. Great for stand-up solo playing. This came after using a  
single F horn in grade school- doing most of the first Kopprasch book  
and the 1st Pottag excerpt book- and now I'm back on a regular double  
with an L bell Paxman Bb/f descant in reserve.
If you ever see my DVDs you will notice that i use a lot of different  
fingerings and have warmups for both F and Bb horn alone. There are a  
lot of issues to consider. Often times i just think it is better to  
stay on one horn or the other to facilitate certain passages- not  
just for fingerings, but for tone, intonation or feel.
For students who have double horns, I'm old fashioned enough to want  
them to establish a "chosen" fingering set that would include the  
notes you mention on F horn. (Actually there is more to it than that-  
like establishing a set fingering pattern because it facilitates  
learning and clarity of purpose in the brain.) I think it is  
important for students to learn to adjust these notes or any other  
notes that need it and the tone is nice. The Bb side in this register  
has very wide slots and can sound honky without due care. Learning  
first on the F side is better in my opinion. Also, the C#, as a two  
valve (sharp) fingering, doesn't suffer much from this flat harmonic  
so we are really only talking about three notes, depending how the  
slides are pulled.
After mastering the "chosen" set, players should be encouraged to  
try, and use, alternate fingerings when appropriate. As long as you  
can play in tune with a good sound (that matches your other notes),  
there is nothing wrong, and a lot of things right, with using  
alternate fingerings.
In my book I recommend exactly what you said for tuning to concert A.  
Use B or upper E, especially if you haven't pulled the second valve  
slide out too far to compensate for T12 notes, which i don't  
recommend. But that is another story, in my book. For those of you  
who are interested, my fingering "chart" (really much more) is on the  
Samples page on my website.

Sincerely,
Wendell Rider
For information about my book, "Real World Horn Playing", the DVD and  
Regular and Internet Horn Lessons go to my website: http:// 
www.wendellworld.com



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Re: [Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

2007-08-10 Thread Dan Beeker
My two cents worth of almost totally unfounded conjecture. Perhaps it is
from the slipping and sliding of the horn when being placed on a hard bottom
chair? How often do we do this when we take a break between student or
practice sessions, never mind on stage in the concert hall.

Dan Beeker
Least Principled Horn
BSO


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date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:57:12 -0400
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subject: [Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

Here's a question, perhaps for some of the older members on the list.  I
do a lot of work on horns that are 60 - 100 years old and there's one thing
I often see that always makes me scratch my head and wonder.
If there's a patched hole in the bell flare, it always seems to be on
the opposite side from where I'd expect it to be.  For instance, I just got
in a 90 year old Kruspe and if you look in the end of the bell with the
leadpipe pointing up, the patch is at about 9:30 (o'clock).  Now I can't
find any hand position that I could wear the bell out there, other than just
putting the palm of my hand there and holding the horn with it. 
Anyway, I keep seeing the 9:00 patch on these older horns, and these are
often horns that were played by people with very good professional jobs.
So, was there a hand position used in the "old days" that I don't know
about?  Anybody remember something that their teacher's teacher's teacher
mentioned about it?  
The upside is, now I can play the horn for another 90 years with my hand
on the 3:00 side before I wear that side of the bell out!

- Steve Mumford  


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RE: [Hornlist] Mouthpiece buzzing

2007-08-10 Thread Jeremy Cucco
Singing and buzzing are integral parts of all my lessons.  I don't even
care to debate the merits or lack thereof regarding the musculature
involved, to me it's simply about the ear.  Pitch is crucial for both of
these as well as tone.  A good tone while singing and buzzing almost
always equates to a good sound with good air support on the horn.



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I can second the concept Of sing and buzz.  This summer working with
Fergus McWilliam he pushed a concept of his the McWilliam four step...
you sing it, intonation pitch and everything correct. After one masters
that you whistle (or do the blowing thing that those who cant whistle do
=P.) Same rules apply. Flowed by buzzing it. same rules Than we add
the horn to the mouthpiece and buzz it like we whistled it like we sung
it, and believe me, you know instantly and we watched person after
person prove the theory. It works. It was like Fergus told me, "that
little hole, is your portal to another world" I support buzzing! Mat


On 8/6/07, Johnson, Timothy A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "If you have a horn available to play, then I see little use in 
> mouthpiece buzzing." - Jonathan West
>
> With respect, I would submit that there are some uses for mouthpiece 
> buzzing - particularly for younger and amateur horn players.
>
> There is a tendency I have observed, to play somewhat approximately - 
> without having a clear concept of the pitch in mind - letting the horn

> force the right pitch (more or less) with its harmonic series.  While 
> this works passably well in the lower to middle range, it is full of 
> danger in the higher ranges where one will find many pitches close 
> together.  This is not from lack of ability, though.  It may be 
> laziness, or simply lack of understanding, but when most players 
> listen to a piece, they can identify poor intonation, and if asked to 
> sing the same piece, will be able to do so quite readily and 
> accurately (I'm not talking "Queen of the Night" Aria here).
>
> Removing the horn with its harmonic crutch from the equation while 
> buzzing the mouthpiece does a couple things.  It will enable the 
> player to focus on the pitch without other technical distractions.  If

> you can hear the pitch, you can play it.  If you can't hear it, it 
> will be obvious.  Buzzing can also clear up problems with too much 
> pressure or tension.
>
> I have seen Bernhard Scully use this in a master class to 
> significantly improve the playing of an already quite talented 
> performer.  I have used it myself to help my two sons (one Horn, the 
> other Trumpet) with their playing.  When they are having trouble with 
> a particular passage, I will have them stop playing and take a moment 
> to first sing it.  If they can't sing it, then they don't know the 
> music and are just guessing.  We stop to learn what it should sound 
> like - then, play the piece with just mouthpiece, taking care to keep 
> the pitch as accurate as possible. After that is accomplished, we go 
> back to the instrument.  I find that this significantly improves their

> playing.
>
> Timothy A. Johnson
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan West
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 7:43 AM
> To: horn@music.memphis.edu
> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] What should I be doing in the practice room?
>
> If you have a horn available to play, then I see little use in 
> mouthpiece buzzing. As far as I'm concerned, mouthpiece buzzing is of 
> limited use, basically to try to keep your lip in where you can't play

> the horn itself
> because it would disturb your neighbors, or because you are travelling
> and
> cannot take the horn with you.
>
> But if those situations don't apply, then I think it better to spend 
> your time actually practicing the horn.
>
> Regards
> Jonathan West
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Re: [Hornlist] Mouthpiece buzzing

2007-08-10 Thread Mathew James
I can second the concept Of sing and buzz.  This summer working with Fergus
McWilliam he pushed a concept of his the McWilliam four step... you sing it,
intonation pitch and everything correct. After one masters that you whistle
(or do the blowing thing that those who cant whistle do =P.) Same rules
apply. Flowed by buzzing it. same rules Than we add the horn to the
mouthpiece and buzz it like we whistled it like we sung it, and believe me,
you know instantly and we watched person after person prove the theory. It
works.
It was like Fergus told me, "that little hole, is your portal to another
world"
I support buzzing!
Mat


On 8/6/07, Johnson, Timothy A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "If you have a horn available to play, then I see little use in
> mouthpiece buzzing." - Jonathan West
>
> With respect, I would submit that there are some uses for mouthpiece
> buzzing - particularly for younger and amateur horn players.
>
> There is a tendency I have observed, to play somewhat approximately -
> without having a clear concept of the pitch in mind - letting the horn
> force the right pitch (more or less) with its harmonic series.  While
> this works passably well in the lower to middle range, it is full of
> danger in the higher ranges where one will find many pitches close
> together.  This is not from lack of ability, though.  It may be
> laziness, or simply lack of understanding, but when most players listen
> to a piece, they can identify poor intonation, and if asked to sing the
> same piece, will be able to do so quite readily and accurately (I'm not
> talking "Queen of the Night" Aria here).
>
> Removing the horn with its harmonic crutch from the equation while
> buzzing the mouthpiece does a couple things.  It will enable the player
> to focus on the pitch without other technical distractions.  If you can
> hear the pitch, you can play it.  If you can't hear it, it will be
> obvious.  Buzzing can also clear up problems with too much pressure or
> tension.
>
> I have seen Bernhard Scully use this in a master class to significantly
> improve the playing of an already quite talented performer.  I have used
> it myself to help my two sons (one Horn, the other Trumpet) with their
> playing.  When they are having trouble with a particular passage, I will
> have them stop playing and take a moment to first sing it.  If they
> can't sing it, then they don't know the music and are just guessing.  We
> stop to learn what it should sound like - then, play the piece with just
> mouthpiece, taking care to keep the pitch as accurate as possible.
> After that is accomplished, we go back to the instrument.  I find that
> this significantly improves their playing.
>
> Timothy A. Johnson
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan West
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 7:43 AM
> To: horn@music.memphis.edu
> Subject: Re: [Hornlist] What should I be doing in the practice room?
>
> If you have a horn available to play, then I see little use in
> mouthpiece
> buzzing. As far as I'm concerned, mouthpiece buzzing is of limited use,
> basically to try to keep your lip in where you can't play the horn
> itself
> because it would disturb your neighbors, or because you are travelling
> and
> cannot take the horn with you.
>
> But if those situations don't apply, then I think it better to spend
> your
> time actually practicing the horn.
>
> Regards
> Jonathan West
>
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Re: [Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

2007-08-10 Thread Kjellrun Hestekin
I'm not quite 60 (getting close, though!), but as a beginner in 7th 
grade, I was taught to put my right hand in the bell, palm up, touching 
more or less between 8:00 and 10:00, so wear at 9:30 wouldn't be a 
surprise. (but then, my band teacher was a bassoonist...)


Kjellrun

On 10-Aug-07, at 1:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Here's a question, perhaps for some of the older members on the 
list.  I do a lot of work on horns that are 60 - 100 years old and 
there's one thing I often see that always makes me scratch my head and 
wonder.
If there's a patched hole in the bell flare, it always seems to be 
on the opposite side from where I'd expect it to be.  For instance, I 
just got in a 90 year old Kruspe and if you look in the end of the 
bell with the leadpipe pointing up, the patch is at about 9:30 
(o'clock).  Now I can't find any hand position that I could wear the 
bell out there, other than just putting the palm of my hand there and 
holding the horn with it.
Anyway, I keep seeing the 9:00 patch on these older horns, and 
these are often horns that were played by people with very good 
professional jobs.  So, was there a hand position used in the "old 
days" that I don't know about?  Anybody remember something that their 
teacher's teacher's teacher mentioned about it?
The upside is, now I can play the horn for another 90 years with 
my hand on the 3:00 side before I wear that side of the bell out!


- Steve Mumford
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Re: [Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

2007-08-10 Thread Paul Mansur
I modified my hand position after I began studying with a horn  
teacher.  When I began, I held my thumb on the near side of the  
bell.  It seemed to be the position of choice in my high school band  
in 1941.  I think we all covered a bit more back then 66 years ago.
The new, and present position is more open.


Paul Mansur
On Aug 10, 2007, at 11:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Here's a question, perhaps for some of the older members on the  
list.  I do a lot of work on horns that are 60 - 100 years old and  
there's one thing I often see that always makes me scratch my head  
and wonder.
If there's a patched hole in the bell flare, it always seems to  
be on the opposite side from where I'd expect it to be.  For  
instance, I just got in a 90 year old Kruspe and if you look in the  
end of the bell with the leadpipe pointing up, the patch is at  
about 9:30 (o'clock).  Now I can't find any hand position that I  
could wear the bell out there, other than just putting the palm of  
my hand there and holding the horn with it.
Anyway, I keep seeing the 9:00 patch on these older horns, and  
these are often horns that were played by people with very good  
professional jobs.  So, was there a hand position used in the "old  
days" that I don't know about?  Anybody remember something that  
their teacher's teacher's teacher mentioned about it?
The upside is, now I can play the horn for another 90 years  
with my hand on the 3:00 side before I wear that side of the bell out!


- Steve Mumford
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[Hornlist] 9 o'clock hole

2007-08-10 Thread MUMFORDHornworks
Here's a question, perhaps for some of the older members on the list.  I do 
a lot of work on horns that are 60 - 100 years old and there's one thing I 
often see that always makes me scratch my head and wonder.
If there's a patched hole in the bell flare, it always seems to be on the 
opposite side from where I'd expect it to be.  For instance, I just got in a 90 
year old Kruspe and if you look in the end of the bell with the leadpipe 
pointing up, the patch is at about 9:30 (o'clock).  Now I can't find any hand 
position that I could wear the bell out there, other than just putting the palm 
of my hand there and holding the horn with it. 
Anyway, I keep seeing the 9:00 patch on these older horns, and these are 
often horns that were played by people with very good professional jobs.  So, 
was there a hand position used in the "old days" that I don't know about?  
Anybody remember something that their teacher's teacher's teacher mentioned 
about it?  
The upside is, now I can play the horn for another 90 years with my hand on 
the 3:00 side before I wear that side of the bell out!

- Steve Mumford  
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Re: [Hornlist] Re: Mouthpiece buzzing

2007-08-10 Thread Richard
Old saying: Why do bees buzz? You'd buzz too if somebody stole your 
honey and necked 'er.


Gotta go,
Richard Hirsh, not Cabbage
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RE: [Hornlist] Flight case

2007-08-10 Thread Jeremy Cucco
I thought I'd add one last bit to this and then let it go - 

For those of you who aren't looking for a "carry-on" solution but
something that can be safely checked and stowed (for those of you who
tour often and are on a plane almost every other day), there are a
couple solutions.  Many folks use the Anvil brand cases for this but
they are VERY heavy and quite bulky.  However, Pelican offers a line of
cases which is very lightweight, very rugged and you can find a case the
right size to fit your horn.  I buy my Pelicans from B&H Photo Video
(www.bhphotovideo.com) since they seem to have the cheapest prices on
them.  They come with a "pick-and-pluck" foam or naked (no foam at all).
I would advise against the P&P foam as it crumbles easy and it's not
terribly shock resistant.  Instead, there's another company - CaseCad
(www.casecad.com) - which will make custom laser cut foam which is a
medium density foam and which doesn't flake and get in your valves and
on your slides like the P&P foam would.  All told, you could get a case
and a custom cut insert to securely hold and lock up your horn for
around $400-$500.

I have no affiliation with any of these companies - I just trust their
work implicitly!  I carry around 1 case which contains nearly $40,000 of
microphones and it's a Pelican with CaseCAD inserts and I wouldn't trade
it for the world!

One little side benefit - the Pelicans are water tight and buoyant up to
a certain weight (more weight than the horn would ever be).  That way if
the plane goes down over sea, you'll have something to do until the
rescue team arrives.

Cheers!

Jeremy


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