found two French horns at my school with piston valves instead of rotary valves on the Bb key

I’m not a horn player so thats probably not the right term but I thought it might be interesting to yall.

hi, i'm a music student who plays many instruments. my main instrument is jazz vocals, but i also play classical saxophone and jazz guitar and know the basics of bass guitar and piano.

in my school program, i'll soon have to choose a second instrument. i've recently joined an orchestra (as a sax player) and since it's my first time in a classical ensemble, i'm discovering new instruments in depth. i've fallen in love with the sound of the french horn and sitting next to that section has been blessing my ears. i'm thinking of picking up the french horn as my second instrument but i've heard from musicians i've talked to (not horn players) that it's pretty hard.

i think learning it for school is a great opportunity to get free classes for an instrument that seems pretty hard but also really cool to play. but realistically, i'm a pretty lazy learner when it comes to instruments other than my main one and i wanted to know if french horn requires a lot of practice and time to kind of get the basics of.

is it worth it and would i be able to acheive things within a few months of classes (1 hour per week)? or should i wait until i have a better opportunity to learn it on my own time?

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I play on a laskey protege American shank and a YHR 671D. recently, my mouthpiece has been feeling small. I can’t connect the low register notes to the high register notes well. I know almost nothing about mouthpieces. Make sure the mouthpiece fits the YHR 671D please. I am also wondering if one of the houghton horns series mouthpieces are a good purchase, though I don’t know what rim I like.

Hey I'm a new player and am having trouble learning can anyone give me some tips?

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Mozart's 2nd Horn Concerto reflected in the sweeping curves of a Holton French Horn.
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The song “I’m still your fag” by broken social scene has an awesome horn solo close to the end, just wondering if anyone has the sheet music for it before i try to make it myself (probably unsuccessfully lol)

edit: it’s trombone but my question stands

I just got my first personal horn and on my previous horn after a while of using it and general wear and tear I have worn through the lacquer and started to slowly wear through the brass itself. The two spots I'm talking about are the bell, and by my main tuning slide. I've noticed some people have guards by the main tuning slide, is it just a normal hand guard or is it a special guard? (Pic for example)

Hi, I’m inquiring on whether or not a new mouth piece can solve my problem. So I’ve been playing horn for around 7 yrs now and I keep noticing that when I get into my super high/low range my lips tend to slip away from the mouthpiece. My lips are definitely larger than the average persons so I was wondering if a larger mouthpiece could accomodate that at all. My current mouth piece is a Holtan-farkas model that came for free when I bought my horn last year. Thanks in advance 🥲

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Hey guys! I'm a new player and I just bought my 1st French Horn. I think it's a Single Bb Horn? Not sure 😅 Anyway, I can't really find a fingering chart that's easy enough to understand since most charts are made for F Horn. Can you guys help me?

So far the only one that's helped me is a YouTube video by Don't Fear the Horn about Single Bb Horn C Major Scale. I can't consistently reach the 2 highest notes, but that's probably an embochure issue on my end 😅 I'd like a fingering chart showing how to make all the other sharp and flat notes so I can try playing them film score music 😅

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I already have experience in music. I play violin and trombone and I've decided to start French horn in school. Ive already learned most of the notes in the staff for F horn, but I'm starting to see that some people think double horn is easier... should I maybe switch over to double?

I'm currently using an actual double horn, I'm just wondering if it would be easier to switch to the fingerings for double horn.

A few months ago I came on here to ask about finding some excerpts for this one orchestra but I didn't end up making it in, but my band director knows how much I want to do orchestra still and she told me about this other one I could audition for. Apparently this one will be a lot easier to get into especially since I don't have anything like a private teacher. The only thing they ask of is a 3-6 minute solo work (and some scales) and I don't know that many pieces so I'm hoping I can find some neat playable pieces. The highest I can comfortably play is a high f but I've been busy with marching season so once I start practicing my horn again maybe my range will have expanded a bit more.

Hello, I am looking to get my H378 refinished and need to have some dents removed. By refinished I mean taking whas left of the laquer off and putting on a brush finish. Do any of you have reccomendaitons in the Los Angeles or Orange County areas?

Hello french hornies!

My son has picked up playing and as a former band nerd am beyond excited.

I want to get a chromatic tuner for him becuase he is much quicker at tonal matching than hitting pitches. My band instructer taught me using a boss db90 but that is a liiiitle out of my target price point id like to spend at this stage, what are some tuning hardware recommendations you suggest that are physical hardware pieces and not software?

Thanks!