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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 the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges.
- Cor anglais - Wikipedia
The cor anglais (UK: / ˌ k ɔːr ˈ ɒ ŋ ɡ l eɪ /, US: /-ɑː ŋ ˈ...
- Musical instrument - Wikipedia
Alto instruments: alto saxophone, french horn, alto flute,...
- French horn - Wikipedia
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in...
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The horn is a transposing instrument, usually in F (a...
- Cor anglais - Wikipedia
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. Metal construction, at first imitating natural.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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. Use of the term French horn dates at least from the 17th century.