The real key to evening out the sound between "closed" and "open" notes is the mouthpiece. Back in Beethoven's time, horn mouthpieces were made of sheet metal and were a continuous funnel all the way to the small end. A modern mouthpiece with a choke and backbore works fine on the open notes, not so well on the closed ones. Rick Seraphinoff makes copies of the old sheet metal mouthpieces. - Steve Mumford
Lawrence wrote: Hi John, Thanks for your reply. It isn't the slurring that's the problem, it's getting the f# something like in tune and sounding decent. Full stopping it seems to make the sound a little too stopped (or from a distance does this not sound so bad?) but half stopping doesn't really take it down far enough. Maybe a combination of stopping and lipping down? Thanks for the tip on the "e" - I'll take a look at that one. Once again I'm looking for tips to make it more effective, not to make it possible. She can actually play it but is looking for the "best way" if there is such a thing. What do the pro hand horn players do on that particular passage? Thanks again. Lawrence lawrenceyates.co.uk _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
