Hand in the bell, with the rim resting on your knee. Buzz your lips and try not to get light headed. Practice makes perfect!

Some common ensembles that include a french horn are

Symphony Orchestra/Philharmonic Orchestra

Concert Band/Wind Ensemble/Military Band

Brass Quintet

Woodwind Quintet

Horn Choir (obviously)

Jazz Band (Very Rarely)

Mellephones can be used in

Drum Corps

Marching Band

some Jazz ensembles

I've been playing music for around 7 years.

when i first started off as a trumpeter i was also puzzled why hornists insert their hand into bell of their french horn.

Now I've been playing the French Horn for 5 years. When i insert my hand into the bell, it will changes the pitch, becoming sharp or flat. The more i insert my hand inside the flatter it becomes the lesser i do it, the sharper.

Inserting your hand changes the type of sound too, it gives the horn a better sound, a rich and warm sound that's desired.

you could also "stop" the horn by covering the whole opening of the bell. It gives a muted like sound.

Other than that, it'll look weird if a horn player plays the horn with one hand eh? It'll make the player look funny. i nearly forgot about this, you can lift the horn with your right hand rather than letting it rest on your lap. Most professionals do this.

p.s. Dont mess with the horn.

normally 4 sometimes more but in all professional orchestras, 4

Before valves were introduced to horns, the sound they made was framed by human lips and was called a "recheat". Someone else needs to add the word for the sound a horn today.

The modern horn descends from ancient hunting horns that looked like the modern horn without the complicated tubing or valves. Playing would be similar to playing the modern horn without using the keys. You could still change pitch with your embouchure, but there were many gaps where certain notes could not be played. The reason the bell faced backwards was so the player could change the pitch with his hand, and since most people are right handed they continued to keep the right hand as the one in the bell, even after valves were developed.

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The french horn is a brass instrument. The sound of the horn can mix very nice with the sound of woodwind instruments. The horn is the only brass instrument that is used in the classical wind quintet, which consist of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn. This quintet is sometimes referred to as "woodwind quintet", although the horn really is not a woodwind.

Ab- 23 Bb- 1
C- 0
Db- 12
Eb- 2
F- 1
G- 0
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I'm not sure what you mean by "weird sound", but I'm assuming you have a lot of spit in the horn, so much that it sounds like it's bubbling. The only way I have found to get spit out of a french horn is to keep rotating it clockwise until the spit comes out of the bell. either that or pull off all of the slides and pour the spit out of there.

No. A marching french horn, also called a mellophone, has a shape more like a trumpet with a large bell facing forward. A "regular" french horn has the bell facing backwards. You use your left hand to play the french horn and your right hand to play the mellophone.

Fingering also changes to that identical to a trumpet, or a B-flat Horn (the E's and D's are fingered differently). Some mellophones are made to be used with a trumpet (cornet) mouthpiece, but there are adapters you can use to use your horn mouthpiece. Other mellophone are made to be used only with a horn mouthpiece.

There is no right or wrong size to play on. The smaller the number the bigger the mouthpiece, the bigger the sound, though some people can get a great sound on a small mouthpiece. To find the right mouthpiece for you, you really just need to try. A LOT. See what SOUNDS best, not feels best. You'll get used to the way it feels.

for this guestion you have to go the a local music store and ask for there begining book 4 the french horn but make sure it is the right french horn book.and this will show you note from note and ALL the figuring for all the notes you want and it should also have some songs you can do aswell in it!

Probably not. Old orchestral pieces like that usually keep horn parts written in their original keys, and it's up to the player to transpose as needed.

Mozart horn concerto 1-4, also nocturno op 7 strauss

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A french flute has holes on some of the keys. It is important when playing a french flute you can cover up the holes completely or the note you are trying to play will not come out correctly. A french flute is harder to play than a regular flute.

When I was at school I started learning the French Horn. A couple of years later I had braces put on and I wondered the same thing! However, it never caused me any problems (with the exception of making my inner top lip a bit sore if I pressed too hard on the mouthpiece). In terms of sound quality though nothing changed!

Remove the Valve Cap counter-clockwise, Fill the small reservoir with oil, Replace the cap counter-clockwise while the cap is upside down, paying close attention not to spill the reservoir. Turn the horn so that the valve cap faces up and work the oil into the valve by moving the key.

Remove the slide(s) attached to the valve paying attention to press down the key and/or thumb key that it is attached to, Hold the instrument so that the open slide section's tubes face up, and drop oil down the slide directly onto the valve. Do not allow oil to drip down the sides of the slide. This is where the oil will drag dirt with it into the valve creating further difficulties, Replace the slide(s), pressing down the key(s) attached to it. If you do not press down the key(s) you will create pressure in the valve casing that may lock the valve up completely.

The French horn as it is known in America is actually the German version of the horn. The variation between the two has to do with the valves. Most horns in America use the German rotary valves, while some variations of horn such as the Vienna horn use the real French system of piston valves. The rotary valves shut off air by spinning and the piston valves move up and down.

For a double horn, the F side is 12 feet long, and the B flat side is 9 feet long. On a single horn, it will only be in one of these keys. Each valve lowers the pitch by adding extra length: the first valve by 2 semitones the second valve by 1 semitone and the third valve by 3 semitones

It does depend what you're looking for. Different orchestras play different horns, and different brands of horns feel different to each person. Lawson is precisely made, and are quite rigid in their intonation. Conn is a standard brand (the Conn 8D a standard size), but I think the older ones are better--anything after the mid-1990s, and the quality is quite suspect. Yamaha is a steady brand, it's not fantastic, and it's not awful--it's pretty decent. Schmidt and Alexander are German brands, and being German, are very precise and reliable (though the Lawson is quite consistent as well). Kruspe and Geyer horns are another professional brand. Conn is a big, American sound. The other horns are smaller "wraps" (have smaller bells, etc), so have smaller, brighter sounds. Where are you wanting to play? What level are you at? What feels good to you? All good questions to ask...