crash4truck1 Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 (edited) I loved the French Horn so much tha I own one. Marching with the DesPlaines Vanguard they went to Smith horns and sold some of the old horns. I have a valve slide French Horn in the case along with the mouthpiece that came with the horn. Edited October 22, 2010 by crash4truck1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasgroh Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 I've always been a big FH fan...we had TWENTY frenchies with Kingsmen Alumni in '07...along with twenty mellos. What an astonishing sound! A great middle for 141 horns! cg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contra Doug Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 (edited) Anyone interested, I have 2 DEG French horns for sale. I have a 3 valve and a 2 valve, both are in excellent condition. If you are interested email me at ddesio5@optonline.net. I will send you pictures and prices... Edited October 29, 2010 by Contra Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-horns Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Anyone interested, I have 2 DEG French horns for sale. I have 3 valve and a 2 valve, both are in excellent condition. If you are interested email me at ddesio5@optonline.net. I will send you pictures and prices... No interest here. heh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lp1955 Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Hay Ray now that Sky Alumni is playing Aquarius will there be a french horn solo ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnZ Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Hey Steve,"I used them in Steel City in the 80's. I loved 'em! I had #####in' players too!...OK maybe one #####. But she sure was fun!" I can remember a couple of super players....Miss Debbie, Pat Cavanaugh, Marcee Zaragoza, Lee Wasson, Don Fine, Denny Smith just to mention a few.... You are right, we had some players in that section in the 80's... Lets do it again.... Enjoy the music... Pgh Guy Bari 2 John G definitely a group of fine performers there. But I don't recall us having a Mellophone line then - I recall the FHs and the alto horns, but my mind is blank on seeing any mellos in the line. Debbie is still, well......Debbie! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Priester Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Hay Ray now that Sky Alumni is playing Aquarius will there be a french horn solo ? That's the plan, Leo. Ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalieguy Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 I sure miss frenchies too! MBI used to have some - mostly played by some real characters.. IIRC - I can only remember having 1 or 2 FH's that were of the 2-valve persuasion..All the others were Olds Ultratone P/R's.. We had some really great FH sections over the years, but there always seemd to be 1 or 2 that had that old school BYFBO mentality about playing in the middle..Some moved to other horns after they took them out in favor of an all-mellos mid-voice section, those that did had a hard time adjusting to volume control.. When I think of french horn sections in drumcorps, the one that comes to mind is Madison in 75 & 76..The Great 8!!! Especially the rips in the 1st push part of Rhapsody in Blue..just amazing!! and..R-F-L !!! That group that Fran played with were pretty good too ! Although Mr. Peashey - Cru's FH's were to die for- even back in '72!!! Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Ellis Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 I remember the wonderful sound produced by drum corps when the French horn was used.Would you like to see it make a come back? thoughts..comments... and why did it disappear anyway? Like Tom Peashey, I originally started out as a trumpet player and began playing in drum corps on a soprano. As soon as I heard the first mellophone I wanted to play one. The transition from trumpet to mello is much easier than the transition from trumpet to French horn because of the mouthpiece. A proper French horn mouthpiece has a very narrow rim. I suspect that many others took the same path as Tom and I - just slip the trumpet mouthpiece into a mello and start playing. It is a lot easier to fill out a middle voice section this way than it is to find people with actual concert French horn experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donny Drum Corps Posted October 22, 2010 Share Posted October 22, 2010 Hank is quite unforgettable... the best even... he killed me in I&E's... as soon as he took out his teeth - I was dead meat... triple tongue expert too... I could play higher, but that was it... in every other way he was quite humbling...and a GREAT person too. Yep...thats the guy!!! He ended up marching a couple of years with Cru when the corps was floundering a little in the early 80's. Quite a character. DA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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