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 Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:58 pm
Being a Trombone player (yes i know i dont know much) I personally prefer the Horn and would like to make it my next instrument I am biased however because i would want to talk about how trumpets think they are much better than everyone and always get melody never giving the Trombones a chance : ( of course i do know thats not all bands but my personal experience is that the Horn players i have met have all been quite nice and calm and i did get lessons once from a horn player who also played trombone and trumpet and you know what when played right the horn can go pretty high to and sounds Amazing (he brought a piece one time to try to work on breathing and he played french horn while I played trombone) but yes i am EXTREMELY biased because of the trumpet section at my school
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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:01 pm
I play the saxophone and I think the french horn sounds way better, the trumpet is to high and pichy and usally ares sound like cows that are being killed with a rusty axe, soo yah that and the french horn can have one of the best sounds in the world
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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:40 pm
Alucard the dark one I play the saxophone and I think the french horn sounds way better, the trumpet is to high and pichy and usally ares sound like cows that are being killed with a rusty axe, soo yah that and the french horn can have one of the best sounds in the world that just shows that you're ignorant and dismissive. of course, the french horn sounds nice, but so does the trumpet. if anything, french horn has more pitch problems than trumpet. the partials are so close together that a beginning french horn player sounds much worse than a beginning trumpet player. if we're comparing to players with equal mastery of their instruments, they both sound amazing. personally, i prefer trumpet because it's much more versatile in my mind. it can be used in a classical, jazz, pop, and virtually any other setting. you COULD put a french horn in other settings besides classical, but it sounds too "majestic" and too "pompous" for most genres besides classical.
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:39 pm
 @ toco clarinet: French horns were used for hunting, you know. Hunting music isn't all that classical, but I see your point with trumpet being more of use to a player. Of course, you can't compare an apple to an orange if you say that a trumpet sounds awesome in jazz while a french horn's classical playing is ruddy.
With a beginning player of either, it can sound horrible. While a budding horn player may have trouble with partials and hand placement in the bell, a trumpet player may have difficulty with the amount of air put into the instrument, as well as making sure that the mouthpiece isn't being jammed up against his/her chops.
As for the settings in which they are used, there is such thing as a jazz french horn. Mind that the two won't sound the same, but they are used in jazz nonetheless. I'm assuming you've heard a jazz trumpet before, so I'll send you this link to a jazz french horn player. When I first heard it, for a second a wondered whether the video was pulling my leg and it was actually a quiet saxophone. Nonetheless, I saw the french horn's player's mouth moving, so it was he who was playing. It seems to me that the french horn would be more at home with samba and softer jazz than with loud swing that would be better associated with a trumpet (think: Chicago/any songs sung with Frank Sinatra).
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 2:18 pm
trumpets beat french horn easy
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Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:36 pm
Hey! Let me just say one thing(and these are my dad's words). "French Horns are great in classical music, and Trumpets are great in modern music."
Like that person said, it all depends on who's playing. And Midnight Falcon, you're just gonna have to get used to the fact that trumpets have prettier notes than french horns. And a higher sound. Deal with it. And, the last time I checked, squirrels don't make sound when they are dying. stare stare stare
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Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:08 pm
ravenkitty776 @ toco clarinet: French horns were used for hunting, you know. Hunting music isn't all that classical, but I see your point with trumpet being more of use to a player. Of course, you can't compare an apple to an orange if you say that a trumpet sounds awesome in jazz while a french horn's classical playing is ruddy.
With a beginning player of either, it can sound horrible. While a budding horn player may have trouble with partials and hand placement in the bell, a trumpet player may have difficulty with the amount of air put into the instrument, as well as making sure that the mouthpiece isn't being jammed up against his/her chops.
As for the settings in which they are used, there is such thing as a jazz french horn. Mind that the two won't sound the same, but they are used in jazz nonetheless. I'm assuming you've heard a jazz trumpet before, so I'll send you this link to a jazz french horn player. When I first heard it, for a second a wondered whether the video was pulling my leg and it was actually a quiet saxophone. Nonetheless, I saw the french horn's player's mouth moving, so it was he who was playing. It seems to me that the french horn would be more at home with samba and softer jazz than with loud swing that would be better associated with a trumpet (think: Chicago/any songs sung with Frank Sinatra). you obviously didn't read my post. i never said french horn sounded "ruddy". i love how a french horn sounds in classical music.(french horns weren't hunting horns, hunting horns were hunting horns. hunting horns had no valves.) i also said that you COULD put a french horn in any setting you want to. i just think it wouldn't sound AS good(mind you i'm not saying it wouldn't sound good at all) as a trumpet would in those SPECIFIC settings.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:51 pm
That jazz french horn sounds pretty damn good to me.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:53 pm
you really don't read what i'm saying, do you? i never once said that it would not sound good. i simply said that trumpet sounds better, to me. trumpet fits better. you can play that exact type of music on trumpet, and to me, it sounds better on trumpet.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:01 pm
Trumpets all the way. Hands down.
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Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 9:21 am
I don't really like the trumpet all of that much personally. I think that horns can sound pretty, but I had the misfortune of having to sit behind some bad ones one year and I just don't really care for them.
I have to give this one to the trumpet in the end. French horns played wrong sound awful.
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:16 pm
toco clarinet you really don't read what i'm saying, do you? i never once said that it would not sound good. i simply said that trumpet sounds better, to me. trumpet fits better. you can play that exact type of music on trumpet, and to me, it sounds better on trumpet.   "Tɧe țϊɱe ʜas ɔɵмe," ҭhє ωᾱℓɹʉs sɑȉδ,
"Ⱦѻ ʇᾀʟҝ oʄ мαnץ ʈɦɪйɕs.
θϝ sнȏҽs & șɥῐῤs & ȼєɨɩiɲɢ ϖaж
----------------------------------------------------- Except if the piece of music has rips. Trumpets can't do rips as well as french horns. ----------------------------------
Ȱғ cӓɞҍɑʛϵs ᾇȵʠ ɮȋπɠs.
Δи∂ ώʮϫ τнe ϛέᾃ ΐs ϐɸɪȴῖиɕ Ћϕʇ,
Ʌᾒם ѿȟɘтӊeɻ ρɨɢș ɦαѵҿ ώιήgʂ."
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:00 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 5:54 pm
weel i started on the trumpet & i was pretty good. but in the middle of 6th grade i switched to french horn & i'm pretty good at that too. i'm not sure if i would say one is better but they are different. trumpets are strong leaders who have melodoies that carry over the band. but if they are bad b/c it's a directional instrument everyone will know. french horns have smooth & rich melody lines & often have rips. i've been told that french horn is very hard to learn, but i thought it was easy. i think i like playing the horn better, but i play trumpet during jazz band b/c my director doesnt wnat any jazz horns. plus if your in marching band you would know that a mellophone is like the combination of a trumpet & horn. you can use either mouth peice, but plays in the key of F (horns are an F instrument) & have the fingerings of a turmpet. & you can use a horn, mello or trumpet mouth peice. so they are similar instuments in some ways, but completely different in others.
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Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:08 pm
French horn. The trumpet is way too easy to play. I can play a song on it without practicing. The french horn is more of a challenge. It is said to be one of the hardest instruments. The harder to play, the more fun you have smile
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