Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 2001/01

From: Grant Green <gdgreen@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] transposing
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:48:41 -0500

Bill said:
> Tim, I don't mean this as confrontation or lack of sense of humor.
>Since I don't know anything about brass, I'm curious if there is
>something dramatically different about a French horn vs. (say) a
>trumpet?

The most interesting thing (to me) about the French horn is that it
has the same amount of tubing as an F (bass) tuba - just much
thinner. The horn can descend below the bass clef, but its narrow
bore makes it easier to play well into the treble register. The
double horn has a thumb valve (rotor, actually) that switches in a
different path through the other rotors, and puts the instrument in
Bb (it is actually like two horns, one in F and one in Bb, that share
a lead pipe and bell section) above the low F (equivalent to a bass
trumpet). There are also triple horns that have a third path for F
alto, above the Bb and F sides. Some players play a single horn in
Bb. The most common is the F/Bb double.

Grant

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