Nury guarnaschelli biography definition

The analogy as a pedagogical method for teaching the horn

In my nearly thirty years as a professional horn player, and more than twenty as a teacher, I have often needed to create models on various aspects related to the interpretation, both for my own needs and to help my students.

As the way sound is produced by brass instruments is not obvious to the naked eye, unlike with string, keyboard or woodwind instruments, it has been useful to create analogies between them and the horn in various aspects (sound production, range, articulation, etc.) to understand and explain how it works.

I believe studying engineering has led me to try and find rational solutions to various problems, although I must say that my methods have always been empirical and never scientific, that is, my observations have not been made using laboratory equipment and instead they have come from my own feelings and those of my students.

Tone production:

Every student knows (or can be easily shown) the basic operation of a piano or of a violoncello:

In the first one, the hammers, driven by the keys, hit the strings, which are maintained at the required tension by a metal frame and pegs that hold them against the bridge. In the second one, almost everything is the same, except instead of hammers, hair

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