Who on the forums can play chords on horn? (i.e. sing one note and play a different note on the horn at the same time.)

I've just figured out how to do it, but apart from the Weber Concerto for Horn and a cadenza for the Gliere Horn Concerto by Herman Baumann I haven't seen them in any other pieces. Any ideas?

One of the horns in my county youth can play the ground bass of Pacabel's Cannon and then sing the descending melody over the top! But he goes a pretty red colour whilst playing it! lol.

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I can't do it very well on horn, but I find that the bigger the mouthpiece the easier it is to do (tho maybe that's just me), so i can do it on the trombone and euph etc.
It's just a silly effect though, I don't think it's used much.

I saw Haken Hardenburger playing multiphonics in a performance of a piece called the Sore Throat (it was the something Throat, I can't remember what exactly). I've never known anyone do it on trumpet before. Multiphonics are normally reserved for larger brass instruments. It was quite impressive even if the rest of the piece was not particularly whistleable!

wow i havent been on in ages but no i cant do that.

Do you mean the Weber Concertino? or does he use them twice?

In addition to Tony Halstead's fabulous recording of the Concertino, I have heard beautiful chords from Bill Wattrass, at one time a trombone player with Woody Hermann's Herd.

The other amazing thing he could do was circular breathing, which he learned in six month's hard practice so as to be able to hold the last note of a solo longer than Hermann could hold his arm up. I expect Wattrass used a fairly narrow bore trombone and mouthpiece, since he normally had amplification.

You ought to check out any Albert Mangelsdorf recordings to hear how it should be done.