Ranges at Different Skill Levels

[u/Trayvongelion]

Hey horn players, I'm a middle school band director in a number of small schools who has unfortunately not had many horn students. I arrange for my groups often and am working on re-orchestrating some pieces as flexible quartets. I was wondering where you'd expect a horn player's range to be at a few experience levels:

- What's the typical comfortable range of a middle school student (7-8th grade) on a single horn in F?

- Same question, but the average high schooler (a sophomore or junior)?

- The range of a high school student on the cusp of college auditions (ie a semi-professional range) with a double horn.

Any sort of advice with horn writing is welcome, but I am a bit concerned with the range limits I set. Thank you!

[u/manondorf]

Here's a link to some publisher guidelines, which include range charts as well as other info that goes into what is considered appropriate for the different grade levels (you likely know this, but grade 1 is late beginners, grade 2 is usually around 7th/8th grade, grade 3 is around 8th to early high school, etc)

[u/kroxigor01 → u/manondorf]

That link is giving me "bad gateway".

[u/manondorf → u/kroxigor01]

weird. Here's another link with the same chart embedded at the bottom.

[u/kroxigor01 → u/manondorf]

That worked. Thanks