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Hohner has manufactured a wide range of instruments, such as harmonicas, kazoos, accordions, recorder flutes, melodicas, banjos, electric, acoustic, resonator and classical guitars, basses, mandolins and ukuleles (under the brand name Lanikai ). Hohner is known mostly for its harmonicas.
De totale lengte van de hoorn is afhankelijk van de grondstemming van het instrument: een Bes-hoorn is ongeveer 2,75 m, een F-hoorn 3,78 m en een C-hoorn 4,72 m. Tegenwoordig is een combinatie van twee hoorns in één instrument gebruikelijk, namelijk de dubbelhoorn (F–Bes). Dit is het standaard instrument in professionele symfonieorkesten.
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A Brief History of (French) Horn Evolution. In most countries our instrument is referred to without any nationalistic reference. It is: yuen ho in Hong Kong Chinese. In English speaking countries it is called the French horn (and The International Horn Society wants to change that!*) .
To help, I’ve compiled a guide to the many different types of horn, along with a brief horn history. I’ve also pointed out some particularly fine horns on the market today, with an eye to instruments for different uses and skill levels.
- Kenaz Filan
horn, in music, any of several wind instruments sounded by vibration of the player’s tensed lips against a mouthpiece and primarily derived from animal horns blown at the truncated narrow end or, as among many tropical peoples, at a hole in the side.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The horn is a brass instrument whose soft resonant timbre allows it to harmonize well with both brass and woodwind instruments. One of the unique aspects of this instrument is that the player keeps a hand in the bell while playing.
horn, the orchestral and military brass instrument derived from the trompe (or cor) de chasse, a large circular hunting horn that appeared in France about 1650 and soon began to be used orchestrally.
