Natural Horn and The Modern Horn
Below lists natural horn keys with their corresponding fingering on the modern horn. If a piece of music says the key on the left you can press the key combination on the right on the modern double horn to get the correct tube length. This is useful for simulating natural horn when playing older compositions.
- B♭ alto – T0
- A – T2
- A♭ – T1
- G – T12
- G♭/F♯ – T23
- F – open
- E – 2
- E♭ – 1
- D – 12
- D♭ – 23
- C – 13
- B basso – 123 (generally very sharp; pull tuning slide and/or valve slides out somewhat)
- B♭ basso – not possible on F horn, unless you pull all the valve slides and tuning slide out as far as they will go (without detaching) and then use the 123 fingering. Even then, the intonation may still be sharp.
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