Hello Fred, you are doing it right absolutely, but ...
The problem is another than many thought: linking one´s
playing with the other players, synchronizing to form ONE
body of music. This is a wide spread disease among the
amateur community AND special with the younger
professionals. All wanted
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Hello Fred, you are doing it right absolutely, but ...
The problem is another than many thought: linking one´s playing with the
other players, synchronizing to form ONE body of music.
A few years ago, I had the good fortune to play in an orchestral workshop
conducted by Simon Rattle, with him
Re: Discussion of live versus dry acoustics for practice room
I think it is good to practice in a variety of spaces where you enjoy playing.
Also outside sometimes, especially in the woods, where horn playing
originated. Enjoying what we do is part of making a beautiful sound. Isn't
that
Hmmm
No mention of any tendency for excessive pressure.
In fact, I play with very little pressure (especially since I have a
crown on my front top tooth). I just find that the duck's foot
*creates* pressure. I also just don't *like* the pinky hook. I just
think there has to be a better way
Bill, and nobody complained about the loud TV ? Like in
chinese hotels in China
I never practised in any hotel room. Had nothing to
practise. One hour early in the hall gives enough time to
refresh the embouchure. For practising, it is too late
anyway. This has to be done long before
Just wondering what some of your opinions are regarding your preference in how
a horn
should sound in general. I had a great conversation with another horn player in
Denver
yesterday and it was offered up that the traditional 8D sound (see typical
Hollywood
sound) is loosing popularity fast. In
Alas, it hasn't helped my playing so far, but my serve is a lot better
these days.
Jack Martin
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I had the pinky ring removed from my horn more than 10 years ago and the
horn has never slipped or dropped, even under the hottest, sweatiest
circumstances. I
That's what I thought, too. There is a bend for around the bell. They did come
from a music store. Remember, in the U.S. horn means anything you blow into,
including harmonica.
Herb Foster (I play horn, French horn)
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I think they go with a baritone or
Playing off-the-leg, like I do, balances the horn so that I need to pull with
the left arm just for zero pressure. I find that even with something like a
tennis grip or friction tape, that I tense up and use more pressure. With a
strap, I can relax and use appropriate pressure. YMMV.
Herb Foster
From: Steve Repp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just wondering what some of your opinions are regarding your
preference in how a horn should sound in general. I had a
great conversation with another horn player in Denver
yesterday and it was offered up that the traditional 8D
sound (see
Hello List,
I think I know, but if I am right, then I find it surprising that no one
else has answered this aready.
In the manufacture process, tubes are first bent to approximate shape. Then
placed in a mold. One end is stopped and high pressure liquid is put in the
other end to force the
There are nevertheless a great number of people who are practicing in
the hotel room because they are going to an audition, and would rather
warm up in the privacy of the room rather than together with the
competition.
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Hmm interesting observation about banned 8D.s Can you provide any further
information?
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Subject: [Hornlist] The preferred
For those in the area, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville has
a unique concert coming up. Chris Brubeck's jazz quartet is performing
on campus next Monday, April 30. About half of the concert will be the
quartet by itself. The other part of the program will be Brubeck's
group
Steve said producing a positively terrible tone, the teacher must
intervene - not all
students have good ears, and even those with good ears don't always have the
experience necessary to know what sounds good and what doesn't. But for a
professional or even a conservatory or
Perhaps I should clarify measure. One can over/under interpret, and that is
why I say
measure. Top-flight players have to have a good sense of measure...IMHO.
Point I am getting at is what folks out there like when the tone is uncoaxed.
Tone is indeed individual, and influenced by embouchure as
Hi Fred and horn listers!
Regarding your predicament of preparing great music, I think you might find
people might be more willing to listen to your suggestions than you realize. I
have been blessed to be able to speak to others about their performance
problems without being offensive
Nobody cares about tone these days. The only thing that matters is to not
miss notes. Actually, that's not such a bad thing in itself, I think it was
Phil Farkas who said after you miss a certain number of notes, it ceases to be
espressivo.
I do know of more than one top US orchestra
I think that as long as the tone does not take away from the musical message
that there should 'ideally' be no preferred tone. Above all, I think that
flexibility of tone color is probably much more important than devotion to any
one color (ie. cleveland sound, ny sound, london sound etc).
Steve wrote: The thing I don't like about most of the strap arrangements
is that there's so much material there, it feels confining to me. Also, for
me I found that all that stuff strapped to the horn deadened the sound a
bit. I made one that only attaches at one point and leaves my hand
In addition to listening to recordings to become familiar with a
work and a variety of approaches to it, I also try to have a look
at the full score. I'm lucky that I live close to an excellent
music library. (I don't mean the one where I work, where, in any
event, I don't have time to pore
Hello Jeffrey, I agree with you, but I would even go
further. Too many players today produce just an acoustical
event, but no tone, no special tone, no personal tone, not a
beautiful tone, just a colorless more or less intonated
dynamically controlled NOISE, nobody would care about.
What is a
Repp Ripped and Rapped:
In fact, my understanding is that 8Ds
are banned in
some orchestras.
Now, it is the mostestest of understoods by me, many, many, many times, that
in certain parts of our vast US of A, that some people are always having
some half vast ideas, conceptuals,
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