Hello Brass Contingent, I too played trumpet for some time, and I am aware of an effect that helps pitch recognition. The trumpet presents a certain impedance to the player's lips at each of its resonant modes. That impedance changes from note to note and there is a characteristic feeling of resistance for all notes. Some notes "slot" easily, others have to be pushed. Most trumpets feel like a piano with very uneven touchweights. Even if you have no sense of pitch, after a while you know what note you are playing by how the horn responds at the attack. Vladan Hi Jean, Just to answer your questions: I'm not sure I'd call it a translation, but maybe something like that.=20= I had to learn the french horn well enough to play in a concert once, I=20= only spent a few weeks on it. It was a real pain to read the music=20 since the horn is in F - i.e. reading a D but hearing a G, but using=20 the same fingerings from a trumpet in bflat! Though, toward the end of=20= playing it, I felt the very beginnings of starting to feel the horn's C=20= (an F) as a C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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