Adult Fans of the Single F Horn
I am a fan of all types of horns, and certainly single F horns and especially Vienna horns have a following. There are many reasons for this.
Besides being cheap beginner instruments, there are reasons why a mature player might also want to play a single F horn. One school of thought is for example to warm up on the F horn as it is harder to play accurately, the idea being that when you go over to your double horn later you will be more accurate. Another school of thought is this is dangerous; it will impact your accuracy negatively to switch horns too often. But change can be fun, and probably every couple weeks I do my full warm-up on the horn at the right, a single horn of nineteenth century design with crooks made for me by Richard Seraphinoff.
The other thing about old style single horns is that they are fun to play.
This is nowhere more evident than in Scotland. For years I have had a link in my links page to the Scottish Vienna Horns. I don’t know anyone in the group, but I just love the idea of enthusiasts of the Vienna horn starting a group in Scotland. Today I learned however that one Vienna horn enthusiast group is not enough for Scotland! There is now another group, the Vienna Horns of Scotland. Check out both websites. Maybe it is time for a similar enthusiast group in the United States.
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