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About the course:

Join Michael Wray as he demonstrates the fundamentals of the french horn.

Support your students in learning how to care for the instrument and utilise correct breathing, tonguing and slurring as they begin to produce beautiful music.

About the instrument:

The French horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular. Pitch is controlled through the combination of the following factors: speed of air through the instrument; diameter and tension of lip aperture in the mouthpiece; plus, in a modern horn, the operation of valves by the left hand, which route the air into extra sections of tubing.

About your course teacher/s:

Michael Wray

Lecturer in French Horn

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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Details:

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Difficulty Level/s:

Beginner

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Principle Teacher:

Michael Wray

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Course Group:

Brass

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From Program:

Sydney Youth Orchestras

Program partner:

For instrumental learning, the SYO beginners program provides students and teachers with a clear set of musical goals, set to an objective of assessment standards. Schools have access to two years of world-leading development content, for sixteen orchestral instruments.