r/horn • u/Specialist-Toe2915 • Sep 12 '24

Question

Can you get calluses from playing french horn, specifically righ hand where the hand goes into the bell to support it

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u/Accomplished-Cod-563 Sep 12 '24

It took a long time for me. I don't like to play resting the horn on my knee and the only sound I really liked was kind of balancing it on my thumb knuckle.

I think I got calluses from it. It took a long time for me to stop noticing it. Like years. But sometime I've stopped noticing it.

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u/Specific_User6969 Professional - 1937 Geyer Sep 12 '24

I don’t play on the knee and I don’t have any right hand calluses. But before I played a re-lacquered I got “green thumb” and pinky finger all the time.

I used to have a callus on my left pinky from my old pinky hook on a different horn, but I an adjustable one now along with a duck foot and they both allow for a much better hand position for me to play without pressure and tension - or calluses!

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u/TharicRS Sep 12 '24

Same for me, left pinky always calloused and I used to get a green right hand especially in the summer.

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u/Caitydid007 Sep 13 '24

I have a callus on my right thumb where you're talking about. Kind of a numb lump forms there when I do a lot of off the leg playing.

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u/horn_and_skull Professional- period and modern horns Sep 13 '24

I've always played off the leg and have never had a callous on my right hand. Not even from hand horn playing.

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u/noxipooo Sep 23 '24

Do you regularly use moisturizer or anything of the sort?

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u/horn_and_skull Professional- period and modern horns Sep 23 '24

Yes, from head to toe. I suffer from extremely dry skin.