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Published: 6 years, 12 months ago
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TheAtomicDog
6 years, 12 months ago
The hardest instrument to play.
AndyBunneh
6 years, 12 months ago
French horn is not that hard, but I think Oboe/bassoon are wayyyy harder. So many keys and triggers and half-fingerings.
TheAtomicDog
6 years, 12 months ago
I played oboe and bassoon in school. Started Treble then went to Bass in Junior High. If you have a natural overbite it helps to address the double-reed embrasure, as opposed to puckering your lips to fit inside Tinkerbell's drinking goblet. The half-fingering is somewhat easier than you might imagine as well. The fingering are in the clarinet/flute category of difficulty, not like King Bitchmaker saxophone.
And don't you use the fist inside the bell to manipulate the final note, as well? And then that weird-ass thumb-valve that does what, change the key or whatever?
Christaphorac
6 years, 12 months ago
Randomly speaking of the bassoon: how bout that Charles Sirard and his playing on "Tears Of A Clown"? :3
TheAtomicDog
6 years, 12 months ago
In reply, just let me bring some of Dat Double-Reed Funk:
The real jam starts at 1:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPVpMxVn6mk
AndyBunneh
6 years, 11 months ago
Worlds best dancer, tied to a pole during a music number. Shame!

That's an amazing bassoon section! We played "The Wiz" in my high school band, but we didn't have a bassoon XD
isthisagoodname
6 years, 12 months ago
I'd place them on the same level of difficulty. The partials on the horn get so close in the upper register that it's possible to play 3-4 different tones a half step away from each other with the same exact fingering. Landing on the correct note can be an absolute crapshoot, and most horn players are given a bit more leeway for their mistakes in performance than other musicians because of that. :P

With the oboe and the bassoon, it's like a single-reed in the fingering department (Have your fingers on the correct keys/holes and the correct tone SHOULD pop out), but because it's a double-reed, it's more difficult to get a GOOD QUALITY tone, and those reeds break a whole lot more easily, and they're more expensive to replace than single-reeds.

I'm closing in on 20 years of actually playing the French horn (much of my performances from college exist in my FA gallery). I graduated with a BA in Music, and hope to one day be a hornist in a professional orchestra. It's tough though, for someone in tons of debt to finance trips to travel for auditions, and be told "no" time and time again. D:
Christaphorac
6 years, 12 months ago
In general or just in the brass division?
Because I've heard stories about the oboe.~
TheAtomicDog
6 years, 12 months ago
See above for oboe, but I'll add for you directly, that the main challenge when playing the double-reeds is to keep the note as rich and woodsy as possible. Too much air, and you end up sounding like either a pissed giant mutant mosquito, or a pissed giant mutant bumblebee, depending.
And oh yeah: so carefully maintaining those touchy (and expensive!) double-reeds was always a bitch.
WhyteYote
6 years, 12 months ago
Embouchure!
isthisagoodname
6 years, 12 months ago
Let's hope this guy keeps at it. Horn is less and less popular with the young ones with each passing year, and most young bands instead just give transposed horn parts to saxophones, which are decidedly easier to play.
EmmetEarwax
6 years, 11 months ago
The bulk of the comments here are on hard it is to play certain musical instruments.
I suggest you read MAD RACCOONS by Cathy Hill. In one story, Virgil finds a friend who has to play the "yaabazoo". It looks like something Dr,Seuss would have dreamt up. It is also the devil to play right. "Best fitted to play a dirge !"
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