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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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The French Horn is a brass instrument, distinguished by its brass construction and sound production through lip vibration against a metal mouthpiece. Its sound is shaped by the air vibrating within its coiled tubing and flared bell, setting it apart from woodwinds, which use reeds or air blown across an aperture.
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
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 a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn ) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn ...
- 423.232, (Valved aerophone sounded by lip vibration)
Nov 28, 2023 · The French Horn, often called the Horn, is a standard instrument used in a symphony orchestra. Usually made up of four to five players, the Horn section sits in the orchestra’s back row and adds color to the ensemble, and is associated with heroic themes to the music.
French horn. noun. music a valved brass instrument with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece and a tube of conical bore coiled into a spiral. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: about three and a half octaves upwards from B on the second leger line below the bass staff: See horn.
