Some background to the horn fingering charts (pages 1 and 2).
These horn fingering charts are a wee bit different to most of the other ones
on the web.
I am not writing out fingerings like: "F is played on 1" - the aim of these charts is to help people understand what is actually happening when they play a note and to provide a comprehensive list of the available tube lengths that can be used to play any given note. It also demonstrates how these tube lengths can be achieved in terms of valve combinations e.g. the horn in F, which can either be played as open on the F-side, or as 1 and 3 on the Bb-side.
In most cases, the simplest F-side and Bb-side fingering will be preferable (and I have indicated my preference on some of the notes on the page 2 but all options are displayed there for the sake of completeness.
Note that these fingerings are worked out in a mathematical way through code and through what we know should be physically possible from our understanding of the harmonic series - so there will be some fingerings that really are not great due to anomalies in the design of the instrument or other physical factors - I will leave these up to the player to sort out for themselves.
I am also not keen on providing a pdf print out of "exactly how I would like you to play the horn" - fascist style fingering. I would much rather people understood how the horn works and then worked out how to play any given note from that...if you want to play a C on 2 and 3, go for it ;) - but just adjust the hand accordingly!!
Oh and yes, I am a total optimist believing that people will want to know about this rather than just printing out the old pdf chart - but so what!