Incompetent teachers teach innocent childs in a completely
wrong way.
I had a young player here from Korea & we talked about
broadening the horizon of teachers regarding horn
literature. I told him, that it was expected during my
studies 50 years ago, that we students prepared additional
pieces & played them for our teachers when we had finished
playing the pieces we had to prepare for our lesson. Our
teachers were most happy about our extra activity & extra
study and continued the lesson by working the new piece
through. He responded that in his country many teachers
would not care about history of the instrument & regarding
literature just go the old & simple path (Beethoven op.17,
Mozart K.447, K495, K412, Strauss op.11) and that for
several weeks or even months per piece. The teachers would
not accept the additional work or would become angry about
it. Unbelieveable ! These teachers (in all countries) go
after the study plan as if it were written for eternity
without amendment. This studying a piece or etude for a
longer period would make it quite impossible for another
teacher to change anything later with the same student. All
is "drilled" in, making changes impossible. I experienced
this very often during my masterclasses. Students said yes,
yes, a good idea, tried it unsuccessfully, tried it again
but successfully. When I asked them after five minutes, to
go back to this peculiar phrase, they did it the old way.
Hm ! Aren´t there too many out there, who should not
teach, but give lessons still
Thank you Jonathan for confirming my ideas or experiences.
Greetings
Hans
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Subject: Re: [Hornlist] B-flat or F fingerings in the low
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> But we teach them in a
> wrong way just fingerings instead make them able to
understand the
> harmonic series & the relations of the tones each other.
I remember at about age 10 working out the basis of the Bb
side fingerings by myself and carefully drawing a chart that
showed how the Bb fingerings were off from the F fingerings
by a 4th. I took it to show my teacher, who didn't seem to
be impressed, and as far as I can remember thought I had
misunderstood what the Bb side was about and how the
fingerings worked. He had simply been teaching me fingerings
out of the book and seemed uninterested in how the harmonic
sequence controlled things.
I'm pretty sure I did get the chart right, because I don't
remember my understanding of the harmonic sequence and of
fingerings changing radically since. It has been refined a
bit by a better understanding of which harmonics are a bit
out of tune relative to equal temperament, but the basic
understanding has not changed.
Regards
Jonathan West
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