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I struggled with the Farkas method for three years. For higher notes a faster air flow or more tension is required. The air stream has to push the lips apart against the lip tension. Unfortunately, using pressure is quick and easy while developing lip muscles takes time - especially for older students.Īir pressure ("breath support") is probably less important on a french horn on Euphonium. Today with the exception of some "brass band teachers" (especially in the UK) pressure is frowned on. Using pressure was popular in the first have of last century across most brass instruments and some of the extra wide rim mouthpieces reflect this. It achieves lip tension without stretching and consequently give good endurance - especially to players with larger lips who have no choice but to set the mouthpiece rim into the lower or both lips. The Phillip Farkas "puckered smile" embouchure is worth reading about. When you whistle you also tense lip muscles but in a way which does not make them thinner. To play higher notes, lips have to vibrate faster which will only happen when they are more tense. This makes them thinner and more easily damaged by pressure which is the intuitive way of supporting the lip stretching. You can stretch your lips like an elastic band to increase their tension. Do you suffer from lip fatique on high notes (C in the stave to top C) towards the end of long playing sessions? It may reflect using a different embouchure for such notes which your lip muscles simply cant hold.
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Inadvertently, dropping an octave is strange and is unlikely to be something simple like insufficient breath support.
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In other words, playing that high is a technical challenge which is unlikely to be important even in professional horn playing. (In extreme cases its just that the composer/arranger has an irrational bias towards regular orchestral instruments). The reason they don't include a flugel horn player in the score is sometimes because they dont have the experience to know that instrument would sound better (more horn-like) playing that note and can do so with much more reliability than even on a F descant horn. IMHO, its never a nice note and only ever written by composers/arrangers who should (and often do) know better. The fact that the horn uses a different mouthpiece shape doesn’t exclude it from the category.If you're concerned about playing F above top C (ie written above the 3rd ledger line - 3 octaves above the F fundamental on the Bb side) then my advice is don't bother.
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There’s a Wikipedia article on the topic also.Įverything I’ve found suggests the concept of pedal tones applies to all members of the brass family, namely cylindrical bore metal instruments with a flaring bell and hemispherical mouthpiece that are primarily played by sounding an overtone series along with valves that change the sounding length of the primary cylinder. One thing about the above linked answer I’d be careful of is the reference to the clarinet, which does only have its odd overtones but is also a conical bore instrument so I think there are some subtleties beyond the half closed cylinder model at work in the clarinet. It’s also a different embouchure from the rest so pedal tones aren’t as frequently taught because many believe learning to play then might create bad embouchure habits in the student. Any resonant system has a lowest resonant frequency and for bell and mouthpiece brass it’s there, it’s just not as easy to sound as the first harmonic and much of the series above it. In the above answer, it’s stated that the trumpet’s “natural” overtone series of only odd harmonics is altered by the flare of the bell and the shape of the mouthpiece so that instead of being only the odd harmonics, it has essentially a normal harmonic series, but the fundamental is missing.Ī pedal tone is a way to play the “missing” fundamental.