Talk:Natural horn

Recording
I was thinking about adding some sort of recording. The only problem is that I only have recordings that are certainly protected by some sort of copyright. My question would be as to the legality of using it. I know that sites like amazon sometimes have a 30 second preview of tracks on a cd. For copyrighted material is that enough to not infringe on the copyright? Another option would be to have someone who has a recording of themselves or someone that would agree to have it put on this site for free. Obviously the point would be just to show what a natural horn sounds like as opposed to a modern valved horn. Ok just a thought. The same thing could certainly be done for other instruments articles. Thanks!

Photos
The picture at the end of the article does not contain a natural horn; please remove. Baccherini (talk) 22:32, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Poor organization
The "Hand stopping technique" section covers at least three, maybe four techniques, and never says why these techniques are required. I suggest a re-write. We should open with a sentence or two about valves and why a horn with no valves can't play a complete chromatic scale. Then we should discuss the three (four?) techniques used to get around this.

The first and third paragraphs are repetitive and should be combined. The first lists crooking (which hasn't been explained yet), bending, and hand-stopping. The third lists "modulating the lip tension" (is this the same as bending?), "switching the crooks" (I assume this is "crooking" but we should say so), and hand-stopping. These paragraphs should be combined, without the list. There should be a few words about why we need both bending and hand-stopping, since they seem (from our descriptions) to do the same thing. GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)