Positives: It is surprisingly responsive, with a clearer tone than the standard single F. I did have to temporarily reverse the rotation of the third valve, which I did by stringing it wrong, as seen in this second photo. The G horn first valve slide became the ascending third valve slide. I could set this up because I made this horn (described in this recent article) so that it could be set up in F or in G and has complete slide sets for both pitch levels. An A-flat on the second space would still be fingered 23, but with this combination the third valve raises the pitch a step and the second lowers the pitch a half step. In other words, if you push down the third valve it raises the pitch level of the horn a whole step. How it works on a single horn is the instrument is set up so that it is in G, but the third valve is reversed so that it adds tubing to make the instrument stand in F. The classic instruments would be set up very much like my example. That article is here, and the short version is that this was a valve system that had some degree of popularity, especially in the years before the double horn. Ascending third valve?!?īack nearly 10 years ago I posted in this site an article on the ascending third valve horn. As part of my most recent horn building project I realized that I could set up that horn as an ascending third valve instrument.
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