ABSTRACT
Horn players often purchase used instruments due to the relatively high cost of double horns. The single step in assembling the horn is to insert the mouthpiece into the leadpipe with a gentle twisting motion, unless the horn has a detachable bell—in that case, the bell must be taken in the opposite hand and carefully put together. The placement of the right hand affects both tone quality and pitch and enables the student to produce the effects desired by composers and the conductor. Embouchure faults can develop when beginning students practice in the low horn register. The embouchure for this range is difficult to develop; for the extremely low pitches the player may actually remove some of the lip from the mouthpiece, which seems unnatural and incorrect. Horn tone is produced in the same fashion as on other brass instruments except that the horn player has an additional way of changing tone quality.
