Yayness!

I am on vacation, so, of coarse, I had to bring my french horn. Anyway I figured out that it is now much easier to play without wax on my braces. Plus, I'm still getting better at french horn with braces by minute. I bought a fife ( colonial flute), so now I play 6 instruments. I'm a hornist, trumpeter, pianist, floutist, ukeleleist, and fifer! And does playing a cornet count as playing another instrument, since it is basically the same thing as a trumpet? (A fife has different fingerings than a flute so it counts as another instrument.
Sorry you have to suffer through reading my horribly-spelled words!

New York Philharmonic

I've been playing french horn since second grade, but for the past six years, I've wanted to have almost every job except for being a professsional french hornist. Well, The beginning of my third year at Summer Music Accadamy comes around, and guess what I want to be? I f you haven't figured out by the title and the first few sentences that my ultimate goal is to become a professional french hornist in the New Your Philharmonic, I suggest retaking seventh grade english. This blog is basically showing what I need to do to overcome certain obsticles that keep me from becoming a better horn player.So, If whoever is reading this, altough I doubt anyone is (thank you if you are), knows a french horn player trying to overcome the same obsticle, show him or her this blog becaus it might help him or her. For example, I got my braces on yesterday. In a way, I expected only my tone quality to suffer tremendously. In face, my tone quality isn't that bad; I've almost figured out the correct emboucheure again. Of coarse, the notes above the C in the third space (middle C on the horn, high C on the piano) are hard to get. This is mostly because of the one thing I didn't expect; when I play the high notes, the wire on one of my teeth dig into my lip. OW! Even with the wax on my braces (since I can't squeeze my aperture without the wax on) the wire stabbs my lip. I'll have to wait for my mouth to toughen up, but me? Not practicing? SIKE!
     For the people who don't know what is so special  about the New York Philharmonic, it is arguably the best philharmonic, next to the Berlin Philharmonic. I want to be in the New York Philharmonc as opposed to the Berlin Philharmonic because It doesn't use trumpets with rotary valves, and it is closer to home. Another plus to being in the New York Philharmonic is that I know English, but I don't know German. Time to go practice. or eat lunch and then practice!