The Whole Horn
Practice assignment

Your teacher sent you this

Open it and everything is already set — you just press Play.

What to practise

Free. No account, no sign-up, and it works without a signal.

If nothing happened when you tapped

  1. Open this link on the device you practise with — the phone or tablet, not a laptop. The app is an iPhone and iPad app.
  2. If you don’t have the app yet, tap Get the free app, install it, then tap your teacher’s link again. It will land on the right settings.
  3. If you do have it and the page still showed up, tap Open in The Whole Horn above. Some browsers don’t hand links to apps on their own.

Nothing about you is collected here. There is no account to make and no form to fill in. The Whole Horn has no server — the App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, and the app works exactly the same in Airplane Mode. This page doesn’t know who you are, and neither does the app.

What the settings mean

A practice link carries four things, and your teacher chose each one:

A link never changes your instrument. Your teacher assigns what to practise; what you play it on stays yours.

For teachers

You don’t need to install anything, and neither does your school. Set the practice up in the app the way you want your students to do it, tap Copy link, and paste it wherever you already assign work — Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, or plain email. Your roster stays where it is; the link carries the exercise.

Everything you can assign is free. No student of yours will meet a paywall inside an assignment you set. And because the app holds no accounts and no data, there is no agreement for your district to sign and no vendor review to sit through.

Questions

Do I need an account?

No. There is no account, no login and no sign-up anywhere in the app.

Does it cost anything to do my assignment?

No. The twelve major scales in every key, on all 69 instruments, up to two octaves, plus long tones and vibrato, are free. That is everything a teacher can assign.

Will this change my instrument setting?

No. A link carries what to practise, never what to play it on.

Is it on Android?

Not yet. Today it is an iPhone and iPad app.

The Whole Horn is written and maintained by Thomas Hornig, Henri Selmer Paris artist and Professor of Saxophone at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music. Questions: the support page.