I disagree. The traditional French Horn is a single horn in F, to which a Bb horn was added, accessible via the thumb key. Speaking as an amateur whose newest horn is 30 years old, the traditional notation works fine for me and is, IMHO, just fine because it's the way G-d and Hans Pizka intended it to be. (Hans, you know I am joking, I hope.)
Is this country-specific in any way, since you mention avoiding it in an "international context?" -S- On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Dan Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: > Ricardo Matoshinos has made an interesting post on the IHS Forum > (http://www.hornsociety.org/en/network/ihs-forum) about notation of horn > fingerings using T to indicate Bb horn. He makes the following statement: > > "Today most of the world play mostly in Bb-F horn instead of the traditional > F-Bb so now in fact thumb means F horn..." > > While I certainly agree that T notation is ambiguous and should, for that > reason, be avoided in any kind of international context, I wonder if the > above statement is true? > > IHS members, feel free to comment directly in the thread on the forum :-) > > Dan > > ==================== > Dan Phillips > Associate Professor > Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music > University of Memphis > www.prizmensemble.com > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/steve.freides%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
