A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which...
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The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with...
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The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore...
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layer of leather. The instrument uses a mouthpiece about the same size as a tenor trombone mouthpiece, originally made from ivory, horn or wood, which fits...
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brass instruments. The "British brass band" group of instruments fall into this category. This includes the flugelhorn, cornet, tenor horn (alto horn), baritone...
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The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E♭ horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn...
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not fear thy fate. Acoustic horns are used in: horn loudspeakers brass and woodwind musical instruments vehicle horns such as those used on cars, trucks...
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Mellophone (redirect from Koenig horn)
mellophone is a brass instrument used in marching bands and drum and bugle corps in place of French horns. It is a middle-voiced instrument, typically pitched...
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The post horn is a valveless cylindrical brass instrument with a cupped mouthpiece. The instrument was used to signal the arrival or departure of a post...
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file? See media help. The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves)...
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basset horn (sometimes hyphenated as basset-horn) is a member of the clarinet family of musical instruments. Like the clarinet, the instrument is a wind...
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The German horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell, and in bands and orchestras is the most widely used of three...
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Train horn Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals Horn (instrument), a family of musical instruments French horn, often...
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like a horn, see Conch (musical instrument). Drinking horn Powder horn "Blowing horns". Ancient Music. Retrieved 2008-01-29. "The Exalted Horn of Psalm...
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mouthpiece and the lead pipe of the instrument, increasing the total length of its sounding tube. As a result, all horn music was written as if for a fundamental...
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up horns, Horns, or hörns in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Horns or The Horns may refer to: Plural of Horn (anatomy) Plural of Horn (instrument), a...
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the beginnings of human culture. Early musical instruments may have been used for rituals, such as a horn to signal success on the hunt, or a drum in a...
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Cor anglais (redirect from English horn)
ɑ̃ɡlɛ]; plural: cors anglais), or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately...
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US Ram's horn (shoe), or pigache, a type of shoe with a long, pointed, turned up toe Bukkehorn, an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument Onychogryphosis...
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the ivory tusks used to create the instrument. The first documented use of the word olifant to define a hunting horn appears in La Chanson de Roland (or...
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Gjallarhorn (redirect from Giallar horn)
"hollering horn" or "the loud sounding horn") is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir. The sound of Heimdallr's horn will herald...
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Flugelhorn (redirect from Flugel horn)
flugelhorn (/ˈfluːɡəlhɔːrn/), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider...
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Alphorn (redirect from Alpine horn)
in Latin, where the word lituus could describe various wind instruments, such as the horn, the crumhorn, or the cornett. Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner...
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the free dictionary. Hornblower may refer to: Hornblower (surname) Horn (instrument) blower Horatio Hornblower, a fictional officer of the British Royal...
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Euphonium (redirect from Euphonium horn)
family of brass instruments, more particularly low-brass instruments with many relatives. It is extremely similar to a baritone horn. The difference is...
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a "brass bass" or "bass horn", or an "upright bass" to differentiate it from a "bass guitar". Although being bowed instruments, they can be played pizzicato...
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Panchari melam (section Kombu (horn instrument))
kshetram vadyam (temple percussion) genre. Panchari Melam, comprising instruments like Chenda, Ilathalam, Kombu and Kuzhal, is performed during many temple...
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Stroh violin (redirect from Stroh violin or Horn-violin)
Stroviol is a type of stringed musical instrument that is mechanically amplified by a metal resonator and horn attached to its body. The name Stroviol...
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