On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Kerri Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > Matt's email made just want to chime in. I had the same problem when I first > started playing horn in addition to the clarinet. I could play each > instrument in separate sittings but trying to switch between both in a > single sitting didn't work. My ' F' ear would be gone and if I did hit the > right notes on the horn, they'd be even more sharper than normal. > > It's probably not just an engineer thing. I noticed that most musical pit > books double on the winds or brass (minus horn) while horn is in its own > book. > > Kerri (now 90% horn, 10% clarinet)
I haven't tried to play both back to back just yet, but I'm one of those geeks who reads everything at concert pitch so I don't expect that part of it to be too difficult for me. Horn is mezzo-soprano clef and one additional flat, trumpet is tenor clef and two additional flats. (I know, it would drive some of you crazy to read this way. Rest assured that the drive to crazy is a very short trip in my case.) Back to my original question: I know that trumpet and horn mpc's have very different shapes, but it would be helpful to know a few things about measurements or dimensions that are comparable, e.g., I'm getting the feeling that, generally speaking, French Horn mpc rim diameters might be similar but a little larger than trumpet - is that a fair generalization to make? It's sounding like it might be time for me to know the actual dimension of the horn mpc I play, which is made by esteemed list member Herr Pizka, and how different or not that one is from a 'normal' horn mpc as well. A possibly unrelated observation: I have picked the horn and mpc I play because, at my stage of development, the most important characteristic isn't what make me necessarily sound best, but what I feel offers me the most feedback about my playing technique. Hans' mouthpiece, for me, seems to offer both better and worse playing than I got from other mpcs I tried, and that feels like a good thing as I try to improve. I own two horns and the one I play on is, without a doubt, the worse of the two, but I find that when I play on the better one for a few weeks, my playing gets worse, almost as if I start letting the horn do some of the work for me. I have no idea if any of the above makes any sense, but that is how it seems to me. We now return you to your previously scheduled programming. :) -S- -S- _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
