The musician who plays the French horn using his left foot - BBC News

Felix Klieser is a musician born without arms who plays the French horn with his left foot.
He was always told he could never become a professional musician but that made him even more determined.
He’s now Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s artist in residence and will tour with them over the next two years.
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Imagine playing the most difficult brass instrument with your foot.

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actually, the hardest intrument

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@@alex_the_chip1594the hardest instrument is piano

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French Horn - I could play it with one hand behind my back said Felix, and he did. Bravo.

[@ericbingham-kumpfcomposer5293]

Simply amazing! He makes that French Horn talk and plays it better than many musicians who have both hands. He has control over the instrument like he was born to play it!

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Great reminder that everything is possible! Never give up!

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Including your own freedoms?

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@@Nicole-cf3kj S E L F D E F E N C E love.

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Stop Horn must be fun! Jokes aside, this is amazing!!!!! So happy he is still able to express himself despite adversity :D

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...plain and simple...impressive and outstanding!

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I've always liked this instrument. My dad plays it, and I heard him talking about this guy last night. I think there are multiple things to admire about this guy. One is his nice, clear tone, and another is his flexibility. It takes a lot of lower body flexibility to play an instrument without using your arms.

[@eco-friendlyvegangeek]

The first thing I noticed was his flexibility - his foot is so close infront of his face, and for so long! Also the determination he must've had to start playing with his foot and get to this point, despite being told multiple times that it's too hard!

[@andrewjones-productions]

For me and the hundreds of others who attended the same secondary school as I in North Wales, we (in a good way) consider this normal. The reason being that a French teacher at the school was born without arms also. He would mark our books with his feet, write on an OHP sheet and that was essentially his 'blackboard'. If we got a question right, he would throw us an unwrapped sweet as a reward and we thought nothing of it and would gladly put it in our mouths. The only thing we had to do for him was carry his lunch tray in the canteen, the rest he did himself. As a consequence, I see someone like this and think nothing of it. Nevertheless, that shouldn't detract from what this musician or my former French teacher have achieved and as many people have written, try hard enough and anything is possible. I am grateful for this as instead of marvelling at this musician playing with his foot, I marvel first at his performance.

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Gross

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UM.... you probably shouldn't have mentioned that unwrapped part about the treat.

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Jesus Christ, he is talented.

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He's brilliant! I have mechanical failure of the foot, I cannot even bend my toes! What a fantastic player 😊

[@dhawthorne1634]

My dad said the same thing. His family doctor nearly broke one of his toes trying to force it to bend when he was about 5 or 6.

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So good! What a testament to talent and hard work in pursuit of something you love!

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Well done man❤️

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Yes - Well done Kyle.

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I had the chance to listen to him live with the NAC (Canada) Orchestra. It was a memorable experience. A lesson to people that are so quick to give up at the first inconvenient.

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Wow, that is _AMAZING._ I'm super impressed, that level of determination is extremely admirable for someone like me.

[@clarecatherine8387]

Lucky enough to have seen him play this wonderful Mozart concerto last night at the Proms. What a performance, he is extraordinary!

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and playing one of my favourite pieces from childhood!

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Brilliant achievement.

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Amazing!

[@stephencox7628]

Speaking as an amateur horn player myself, I think he is an excellent player by professional standards. But perhaps this should not be so surprising given that from birth, he was accustomed to doing everything that most of us do with our hands with his toes. I also wonder if he can insert a mute (probably) and what he does about playing 'stopped' notes, in which the hand is inserted deep into the bell to give an edgy, snarly sound.

[@pauljones8614]

apparently he has learned to create such sounds using his lips and without needing to insert a mute or his hand, I have no idea how its amazing

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OMG what an amazing man.

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My favourite orchestral instrument!

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Who?

[@hans0747]

Fantastic and respect

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Awesome 👏🏾

[@karyherndon4266]

I loved this video! I spent several months working at a college with handicapped children ...as students. (They were all in wheelchairs or ..blind or so handicapped ..that it was heartbreaking otherwise! ) ❤️❤️💜☮️🙃🇺🇸

[@kandrenep]

Very remarkable how much you can learn in using our limbs apart from our hands to play such a hard instrument such as the French horn.

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Amazing👍

[@alex_the_chip1594]

1:12, How did he use the 2nd toe to point the 2nd pedal???? Totally Mission Impossible for us! :) Fantastic job Felix!

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awesome!

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'what makes you happy'.

[@avipotato]

I can’t even move one toe individually

[@johncookson9751]

Respect.

[@annecohen8927]

This reminds me of the Daniel Day-Lewis starring in the true life movie of Christy Brown in ‘My Left Foot’. This is absolutely amazing!

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Respect

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Very cool!

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OMG this is making me cry...such a marvel and testament the the will of a human soul. ...thank you so much for sharing this BBC nice to see something besides govmt Propaganda

[@Eusantdac]

I don't want to hear about things being impossible anymore. Obviously, anything is possible.

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That's totally rad

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INSPIRATIONAL

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Remarkable

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Ty

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It’s impressive but keep in mind that the hard part on the French horn is not on the valves it’s on lips.

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I learnt to play the saxophone during the d day landings in 1918

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Holy macarroni. I don't have words.

[@decafmocha211]

Extraordinary...there is a movie entitled "My left foot" starring Sir Daniel Day Lewis...I am speechless

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That’s such a good movie

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The power of a made up mind, discipline, and hard work..❤

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Since 3 is something i understand.

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I have no words, they are failing me DAMN

[@beltstst]

I achieved professional level at horn playing, this is something else , thanks felix , das it’s wunderbar!

[@lucie3623]

❤

[@audeliapalfy8866]

anybody else wondering how he uses the trigger? or if he just doesn't use it?

[@horndude77]

It looks like he has the horn sitting in b-flat and doesn't use the trigger much. It makes a ton of sense. It's more common for European horn plays to have it sit in b-flat than American horn players anyway. Beyond that it looks like it's setup to push out to switch to be in F. I'm also wondering if he more relies on some fingerings (heh) we other horn players tend to not use as much.

[@RetiredBrass]

You can see the trigger is custom set up on the other side. Other videos show it is pushed out with his pinky toe.

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Wow, that's quite a feet!

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Directed by Dan Schneider

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Make sure those feet, toes, heels, arches, legs, and knees are mega hardened yeah

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Kyle of Duty

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Footnote....

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Mozart horn concerto 4. 3rd movement.

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No to discriminatory vaccine passports and mandates, utter disgrace. This must not happen England, do not comply.

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Imagine trying to play your instrument next to this guy, but all you can smell is his sweaty foot

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If only Mankind would live by This

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Proof that you can do anything if you put your mind to it! If you're thinking of following in Felix's footsteps, be sure to check out our rundown of the best french horns 2022... musiclowdown.co.uk/best-double-french-horn/