If you hold the French horn to your mouth, the valves will be facing the right side of the room. See the opening at the end? Put your right hand in it and flatten it and put it on one of the walls. Put your left hand on the valves. That is how you hold a French horn

Both. It can read in both treble and bass clef. It has a long range of notes, so it can reach F below the staff on bass and C above the staff in treble. It all depends on the ability of the player and the mouthpiece.

The English horn player reads music in treble clef. Like many wind instruments, it is a transposing instrument. When the English horn player reads any printed note, the instrument produces sound pitched a perfect fourth lower. For example, when the English horn player reads and fingers the instrument for C, an F is produced.If transposing down it would be a fifth

It's a low brass instrument, But it can reach the low treble clef notes.

French horn is very hard- and that is both an advantage and a disadvantage. It is hard to learn and the music can be challenging to play, but many directors, composers, and colleges favor french horn over many other instruments because of its unique tone quality and sound. Scholarships are widely available to french horn players because it is such a hard instrument to master.

It is a hard instrument to play because the space between notes of the same fingering, called partials, are very close together, making it hard to tell which note is being played. It also takes a lot of air and embouchure strength to play high notes, and even more air to play low notes. Another disadvantage is if you blow to hard your lungs and heart explode

The C scale for horns has no sharps or flats in the key signature, so starting on low C, the fingerings are: C (open), D (1), E (open), F (1), G (open), A (1 2), B (2), C (open)

Concert C would be the G scale for horns, which means it has one sharp in the key signature. Starting on low G, the fingerings are: G (open), A (1 2), B (2), C (open), D (1), E (open), F# (2), G (open).

The fingerings on both are for a single French horn.

The note names on a piano don't correspond with the note names on french horn. A piano is in the key of C and a french horn is in the key of F.

Check out the music of Richard Strauss (no relation to Johann Strauss, the "Waltz King"). His father was a famous horn player, and Strauss wrote many wonerful pieces for horn. Difficult music, though.

it used to have a bell like a trumpets' so it had a really brassy sound instead of a mellow sound. it also used to not have valves! its called a "natural horn." they would change the pitch with the lips and right hand position (because when you put the hand farther into the bell the pitch goes down)

I play the french horn and am not really sure what you mean by what kind of music. A french horn can play any music. I recently preformed at a black history month concert and played blues/jazz music on my french horn. If you mean the key its played in the key of F. Hope that helped:)

There's five flats in the key signature, so starting on the D just below the staff, the fingerings are: Db (1 2), Eb (2), F (1), Gb (2), Ab (2 3), Bb (1), C (open), Db (1 2).

The fingerings are for a single French horn.

If you uncoil all of a regular french horn's tubing, in total it would be 12 feet long!

a french horn can weigh up to 25 or 30 pounds.it depends on what kind it is.if you have a professional horn it will be a lot heavier than a regular or student horn.regular and student horns weigh about 10 -15 pounds

The most common top note is the C above the staff, but it's only found in advanced repertoire and some jazz arrangements. Some players can go beyond that, but such notes are almost never used.

That depends entirely on what job the person can find.

Brass instruments involve the blowing of air into a mouthpiece. The vibrations of the lips against the mouthpiece produce a range of frequencies. ... This forces the air inside of the column into resonance vibrations. The result of resonance is always a big vibration - that is, a loud sound.

Yes, according to the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, a bassoon is classified as a double-reeded aerophone with keys.

oh yeah......since there are little people that play the french horn, many scholarships are available to them. (ima french horn playa!) :] oh yeah......since there are little people that play the french horn, many scholarships are available to them. (ima french horn playa!) :]

the lowest note possible is a double pedal c#, being the c# below the c# below middle c, or an f#1 concert (triple pedal f#). What the highest note possible is, I don't know, but I have heard of people hitting a c#7 (three octaves and one half step above middle c).

It depends on what key the single horn is in. A double horn is pitched in F and Bb, switching between the two keys with the thumb (T) valve. A Bb horn is easier to play because there's less tubing to blow through, making high notes easier to hit and lower notes clearer. However, the tone of them is particularly bright, giving it a nasty sound in the horn's middle and mid-low range. Because of this, a double horn a popular choice because it gives the musician the best of both worlds.

Despite this, starting off on a single F horn is actually a wise choice. Beginner horn music is generally really simple, so the higher and lower ranges of the horn aren't used. The longer they stay on the single F horn, the stronger they'll be when they switch to a double.

A french horn has been around for 38 years. This is the correct answer for sure

Wind instruments which produce sound using lip vibrations are classified as brass. The french horn meets this specification. It produces sound in a fashion similar to other brass instruments such as the trumpet, trombone and tuba.

It dependes on your opinion. I personally think stringed instruments look difficult to play, but that's because I'm a pianist. The flute looks confusing because of all the buttons.