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Re: re: F Horn in brass bands

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Subject: Re: re: F Horn in brass bands
From: Adrian Drover <saxhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 18:45:13 +0100
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On 07 May, Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> French horn facts:

> one J. Foster was a french horn player.....
> Up till the end of the 19th century, arrangments often had 4 horn parts.
> They were marked for 'horns' and 'tenors' in pairs, a conjecture (in Roy
> Newsome's recent book) being that the lower parts were played on, or
> playable on, french horns.  In other words, they've been tried and
> discarded.  In fact, all sorts of things were tried and found wanting in
> the 19th century, un

I think they may have been dumped for an entirely different reason. The
tenor horn is much easier to play than the french horn. It was Adolphe
Sax's idea to use saxhorns all written in treble clef, so that it would be
easier for players to switch instruments if need be.

With french horns, this would not be so easy, due to it being twice as long
as the tenor, smaller mouthpiece, narrower bore and different fingering.

Adrian

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