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 Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:56 pm
Hey does nebody have like a page with scales and fingerings that they could send me...i was basically just handed the french horn and a piece of crap book to go off of. I am in need of dire help!!
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 12:47 am
I love playing the F. horn. I've only played it for one semester, but everybody who listens to me play in wind ensemble say I get a really good sound, they say I am even better on F. Horn then I am on trumpet. Don't get me wrong I am an awesome Trumpet player and have been playing for for years, but playing French Horn is so much better it is harder it gives me more of a challenge then the trumpet ever did.
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:47 pm
I'm trying to learn the french horn. I just wanted to try a brass instrument. I chose the french horn because when I tried it out, with the help of my band director I played the whole F major scale. My band director was impressed. I have been playing the clarinet since sixth grade and the violin since fifth grade.
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:17 pm
The Aqua Alchemist I love playing the F. horn. I've only played it for one semester, but everybody who listens to me play in wind ensemble say I get a really good sound, they say I am even better on F. Horn then I am on trumpet. Don't get me wrong I am an awesome Trumpet player and have been playing for for years, but playing French Horn is so much better it is harder it gives me more of a challenge then the trumpet ever did. Yay! You're just like me, then. French Horns are awesome!
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Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:48 pm
ahhh! My sisters are going to be in my section is comming year...
It's going to be the sister french horn section! blaugh
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:31 pm
Yay!! French horn players!! *hugs everyone* Hooray!! And mellophone... might be awesome, I really don't know... no mellophone players in any level of the middle school band.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe it! eek I haven't played my baby yet at all today!! Gotta do that before the day is done.
My baby sounds like a dying cow on the really high notes... crying Does that mean I suck?
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:34 pm
chijinsan My baby sounds like a dying cow on the really high notes... crying Does that mean I suck? No. sweatdrop (Well... how high? Different skill levels can cover different ranges.)
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:45 pm
Heh... I'm just in seventh grade... and when I tried to play the... let's see... high b, the one two octaves over middle C (over all the lines, and then over one added line) it sounded like I had just killed something, and everything over that sounds like a dying cow, too.
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 2:47 pm
mrgreen I can play those high notes with ease, seeing as how I've just switched over from playing a trumpet...but I don't own a French Horn....**sniffle** Now I have to wait until school starts... crying
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Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 5:35 pm
for our chair placement, we had to record a pre-determined part of "Finale from symphony no.4 in f minor" (worst thign for a freshman) to look at almsot first thing.) onto tapes, and turn it in with a number that only one person (not the director) knew, to ensure that the chairs we got were the ones we deserved - it wasn't based on seniority. we played that in addition to scales. btu me and my friend (also a f.horn) used the tape recorder in my house - from around 1980 - and whenever we played a note above a Bflat (during the scales) on the staff, it sounded like a keyboard set to sound like a clarinet (prolly spelled wrong)the higher we went, the more it didn't sound like a french horn. oddly, though, it didn't do it during the music piece.... eek
but ti turned out alright - my friend got first chair, and i got third. (go freshman!) but the 2nd chair (junior) needed surgery on her arm, so the chairs got shifted, and i played second mostly. to, here's these freshman kicking the juniors' and senior's asses....it went :
freshman
freshman
junior
junior
senior
even though the second freshman and first junior were supposed to be switched around, and we had two 3rd chairs (1, 2, 3, 3, 4)
ok - i apologize - i'm hyper, and rambling, and i'm going to shut up now
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 1:25 am
chijinsan Heh... I'm just in seventh grade... and when I tried to play the... let's see... high b, the one two octaves over middle C (over all the lines, and then over one added line) it sounded like I had just killed something, and everything over that sounds like a dying cow, too. I found a book in my college's library (which is 3000 miles and two months away) on orchestration, and it had charts of the expected ranges (even per string, for the string players) for each skill level for all instruments. I didn't think it was possible to play that high on the G or C string of a cello o_O ...But back to horns.  (Wikipedia=love.) Lower those a perfect 5th, and that's the approximate playing range of a horn.
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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 10:28 am
So... *stares at staff* Looks like I'm about right. Or atleast I'm not way below it. Or something. Oh, forget it, even if I'm not good, I'll get better!! sweatdrop
I haven't played my baby for two days now!! eek I can't believe I forgot!!
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:41 pm
Eh...don't even bother lowering it a perfect 5th. That range isn't out of the question by any means. The High E is pushing it, but it's not impossible.
horns rule.
"Horn is the least efficient instrument of the orchestra, but it makes the most beautiful sound." -Barry Tuckwell.
I couldn't agree more.
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:44 pm
Teh Mooes Eh...don't even bother lowering it a perfect 5th. That range isn't out of the question by any means. The High E is pushing it, but it's not impossible. horns rule. "Horn is the least efficient instrument of the orchestra, but it makes the most beautiful sound." -Barry Tuckwell. I couldn't agree more. That's so true, especailly because our bells face backwards. xp Did you know.....If you uncoil a double horn there's 30 ft of total tubeing! eek
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 11:40 pm
Bluedevil262 Hey does nebody have like a page with scales and fingerings that they could send me...i was basically just handed the french horn and a piece of crap book to go off of. I am in need of dire help!! ok i don't have a copy of one but i have the next best thing a web adress with one on it. here Cricket's French Horn World
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