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  2. List of horn techniques - Wikipedia

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    B♭ alto — up a perfect fourth. A — up a major third. G — up a major second. E — down a minor second. E♭ — down a major second (used for horn on pitches with multiple sharps until Richard Strauss) D — down a minor third. C — down a perfect fourth. B♭ basso — down a perfect fifth. Some less common transpositions include:

  3. Hand-stopping - Wikipedia

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    Hand-stopping. Hand-stopping is a technique by which a natural horn or a natural trumpet can be made to produce notes outside of its normal harmonic series. By inserting the hand, cupped, into the bell, the player can reduce the pitch of a note by a semitone or more. This, combined with the use of crooks changing the key of the instrument ...

  4. Natural horn - Wikipedia

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    The natural horn is a musical instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day (French) horn (differentiated by its lack of valves). Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century the natural horn evolved as a separation from the trumpet by widening the bell and lengthening the tubes. [ 1 ] It consists of a mouthpiece, long coiled tubing ...

  5. Phantom pain - Wikipedia

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    Following the loss of an arm, the majority of motor reorganization occurred as a downward shift of the hand area of the cortex onto the area of face representation, especially the lips. [21] In individuals with phantom limb pain, the reorganization was great enough to cause a change in cortical lip representation into the hand areas only during ...

  6. Giovanni Punto - Wikipedia

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    Giovanni Punto. Jan Václav Stich, better known as Giovanni Punto (28 September 1746 in Žehušice – 16 February 1803 in Prague) was a Czech horn player and a pioneer of the hand-stopping technique which allows natural horns to play a greater number of notes. [citation needed]

  7. French horn - Wikipedia

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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 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 have become increasingly popular.

  8. Sonophoresis - Wikipedia

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    Sonophoresis, also known as phonophoresis, was dated back all the way to the 1950s in its first mention in a published report. [1] This report showcased that a hydrocodone injection yielded better outcomes for bursitis when combined with an ultrasound massage. [2] Following this, a series of publications from several investigators showed the ...

  9. Horn (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The German horn is the most common type of orchestral horn, [22] and is ordinarily known simply as the "horn". The double horn in F/B♭ is the version most used by professional bands and orchestras. A musician who plays the German horn is called a horn player (or, less frequently, a hornist).