There's a great deal of difference between the automobile and a horn though. Most people turn their heads and admire a Porsche. Those same people don't really think twice when they see a shiny instrument.
Plus, an expensive car is a feat of engineering that is much more highly advanced than the most expensive horn out there. Not to take away from the hard work that goes into making a horn, but car companies have billions to spend and customers that are willing to pay upwards of $100,000. -William -----Original Message----- From: Hans Pizka <[email protected]> To: The Horn List <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Jun 19, 2010 1:27 am Subject: Re: [Hornlist] New app for horn fingerings Bravo John, bravo. What is so difficult about the fingering ? The harmonic series is a physical fact, so is the shortening or elongation of the tube by the valves. Every simple brain can calculate what fingerings to use for any note. Well, some notes are possible on several tubes, if we think of acceptable results. Some notes are better in tune on the one tube, some on the other tube length. Buying a device or program, which does that calculation for us, is of NO USE certainly, as it contributes NOTHING to our brain training. To acquire certain skill, it needs good teaching & a lot of intelligent practice. William brought up the automobile as comparison. Well, this is also a tool as is our horn. People also laugh watching our shiny brass snail, seeing it the first time. This iCrap goes about self teaching not about the machine. What do you learn in a driving school ? How an engine is built ? You will learn the traffic rules and how to move through the traffic safely. So we do in the horn lessons. We learn how to use the given different tubes by selecting them for different pitches. We learn how to "ride the overtones". We learn rhythm, melody, transpose, etc. We might learn, how to name the different parts of the instrument. That might be the only thing in common with the driving course. Learning music is not that simple, it is a most complex product of our brain, and, as newest studies confirm, an inherited ability: the cognitive audio visual ability to remember acoustical sensations and the ability to transform black dots within a certain line system into more or less complex acoustical sensations. Good musicians can hear a piece only by reading the score. Am 19.06.2010 um 05:01 schrieb John Baumgart: > Sorry, but I'm gonna have to go ahead and file this under iCrap. > > John Baumgart > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of valerie wells > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 7:10 PM > To: horn; horn list 2 memphis > Subject: [Hornlist] New app for horn fingerings > > A new app for french horn fingerings and practice is available on the > AppStore. A video is available at: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXMW8O8dGA4 > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/john.baumgart%40com > cast.net > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/valkhorn%40aol.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
