Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:47 pm
I believe that is a left-handed french horn.
You mean right-handed?? Or just "the other left"?docpugh wrote:I believe that is a left-handed french horn.
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 4:47 pm
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:13 pm
Well, since you obviously don't need a hand in the bell, it is clearly a right-handed Mellowfone, as popularized by the MellowSmokePerson hisself! 
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:09 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:41 pm
Actually, I believe this 'reverse' french horn is what they use in the southern hemisphere, like drain water swirling in the opposite direction.
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:10 am
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Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:15 am
What I want to know is if they make a horn that does not crack during the first solo in the Leonora overture.
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:48 am
Left handed horns are made all the time.Matt Higgins wrote:ok ok ok .......do they really make a "left handed" horn?? i guess it would really be right handed though
Occasionally right handed horns (opposite of normal) have been made, with the right hand utilizing the valves and the left hand in the bell (and an octave lower than the "mellophone"). This just doesn't look like one of them... and there's no hand (the player's or anyone else's) in the bell.
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:07 pm
No, it would be on such a horn... which only gives more credence to the idea that this image was meant just for show, and is probably just a mirror image!Matt Higgins wrote:so the left hand wouldn't be put in the bell???
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:22 pm
My guess is that since french horns started without valves, they were made so the right hand could perform the stops and things used for natural horn playing. Consequently, when valves were developed, the simplest course of action was to put them where the other hand was, as it was unused.Matt Higgins wrote:
Why is it that the horn is left handed in the first place??
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 1:27 pm
It's a holdover from the "hand-horn" days when horn players (along with other brasses) had no valves- so they preferred to have their dominant hand in the bell, where they used it to create 'stop' notes to fill out the scales. Pro horn players that I know now swear that the secret to a good horn sound is still in how one uses the right hand (more than just hold the horn up!).Matt Higgins wrote:Why is it that the horn is left handed in the first place??
Since having one's hand so far in the bell not only effects tone, but pitch, too, I gotta believe them...