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Hey i just started the french horn for my high school.....I switched from alto saxophone and there is nothing alike about them....i was wondering if nebody had ne pointers...

I'm a French Horn section Leader and it rocks! exclaim Even though I'v only been playing french horn for a year because i originally played trumpet but we were short on horns last marching season and my band director asked me to swich and i said yes, but i liked horn better than trumpet so i stuck with it and heart it!

yay! other people who play french horn! around me, the french horn is a very small portion of the band. this past year, we had 5 in symphonic band, and none in concert band. but one graduated, so now there's going to be 4 sym.'s and a new con - assuming she's smart enough to continue band *shakes fist* but now, two are going to be seniors, and then there's only me and my friend *sob* we're sooo outnumbered!
the the one thing that irks me about being a french horn - there's hardly any good parts in the music we play, and when we do have a good part, you can't hear it since there's so few of us and our bells face backwards. for example - this year, we playes "selections from phantom of the opera" in our spring concert, and the french horns had a melody (along with other instruments...) a few times. but, on the cd recording, you can barely hear us! i only know it's there because it's engraved into my brain. if you don't know it's there, it doesn't hit you like "wow...those french horns are pretty good." but, "phantom" makes up for it a bit - there's a few spots where it's ONLY the first french horn. like - dead silence from the rest of the band, one person playing. that was pretty awesome. now, whenever i hear it, i'm like "sshh! listen! *listens* that was becky!"
*for the record, i'm sorry if i've repeated anyone's comment. i didn't read all of the pages - this is really long!

I know what you mean about the music, but don't you have the reflector things? We have these 2'x2' sheets of plexi-glas mounted on wood behind our bells to reflect our sound forward.

actually, we have a giant shell that goes behind the whole band. however, it's downfall is that the french horns sit on the end >.< all of our sound goes straight into the other band, or an empty space between the bands. crying but, in another song we play, there's a few measures where it's me, my friends becky and katie was a senior -she graduated- but it was jsut us - jsut a little thing. they had a Dflat on the staff, i had an octave down, and we hit it PERFECT it sounds so awesome *drools*and! you can actually hear it

MELOPHONES ARE EVIL!!! take this as a warning if you don't play one. They are almost ALWAYS out of tune HARD TO HOLD and TERRIBLE SOUNDING. I HATE THE MELOPHONE
But the french horn rocks... Yes... It's so pretty and nice and wonderful sounding... It makes lovely noises unless you suck then it sounds like dying cows.

mello'a aren't always out of tune - jsut most of the time. but if you never move your slides, it's alright.
and the hard-to-hold thing in a matter of opinion. when you're sitting down, it's alright because you can rest your elbows on your belt, standing up is harder, though.
and they don't sound terrible!!! scream