If one has acquired the skill to play Bb-horn & F-horn properly or even use both sides equally, switching the brain & fingers to automatic, it is not any problem at all, playing E-horn-passages. It just requires a bit slower approach to the Bb-side, if you have started on the F-horn. Speed will return quickly.
But if you have started with Bb-horn, things can become difficult because the brain is too strongly formatted to Bb by then, perhaps. By the time I started playing mixed horn (back & forth between F & Bb) in a certain semi-conscious manner, you might name it semi-automatic also, my fingers selected things. I started playing, transforming read black dots distributed within a 5-lines-system on more or less white paper directly to acoustical sensations, which are called musical sounds, without employing my brain much. It works well still now for the retired pro. This system freed me of technical problems & left more room for tone coloring, expression, etc. Well, admitted, other things don´t work that good any more. But I do not have to participate on any competition any more. That´s the good thing for me. ############################################################# Am 15.02.2011 um 21:31 schrieb Steven Mumford: > > > Well, I don't know. I like the Bb horn a lot and it never bothered me to > play E tonality on either the F or the Bb horn. Or the E horn for that > matter. Still only 3 fingers involved. Geez, if you think that's hard, have > you ever tried 16th notes over the break on the clarinet? No, I get it, on F > horn, you just put 2nd finger down and you can play 98% of it, but it's not > that hard on Bb horn anyway. Take one tuning slide out at random and leave > it on the stand for more of a challenge if you need it. > > XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > Hans wrote <snip> > > except the tonality E, which > still horrifies the Bb-users & Bb-thinkers. > _______________________________________________ > 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/archive%40jab.org
