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The alphorn (German: Alphorn, Alpenhorn; French: cor des Alpes; Italian: corno alpino) is a traditional lip-reed wind instrument. It consists of a very long straight wooden natural horn , with a length of 3 to 4 metres (9.8 to 13 feet), a conical bore and a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece .
A 1585 English translation of Hadrianus Junius's Nomenclator defines lituus as "a writhen or crooked trumpet winding in and out; a shaulme" (i.e., shawm). [3] The early Baroque composer and author Michael Praetorius used the word as a Latin equivalent of the German "Schallmeye" (shawm) or for the "Krumbhoerner" ( crumhorns )—in the latter ...
The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification groups all instruments in which sound is produced through vibrating air. This can include a column of air being set in vibration (as in wind instruments) or an air-flow being interrupted by an edge (as in free-reeds).
The bucium (Romanian pronunciation:, also called trâmbiţă or tulnic) is a type of alphorn from Romania and Moldova. [1] The word is derived from Latin bucinum, [2] originally meaning "curved horn", an instrument used by the Romans. The word is a cognate with English "bugle".
The word carnyx is derived from the Gaulish root carn-or cern-, meaning 'antler' or 'horn,' and the same root of the name of the god Cernunnos. [2] It is cognate with the Welsh carn. [3] Evocation of a Gallic ceremony in the sanctuary of Tintignac, La Tène culture
Job with his three daughters by William Blake. Keren-happuch (Hebrew: קֶרֶן הַפּוּךְ Qeren Hapūḵ, Hebrew pronunciation: [ˈqeren hapˈpux], "Horn of kohl") was the youngest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of his life, after God made Job prosperous again.
Daniel 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Daniel.It tells of Daniel's vision of a two-horned ram destroyed by a one-horned goat, followed by the history of the "little horn", which is Daniel's code-word for the Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
The flugelhorn (/ ˈ f l uː ɡ əl h ɔːr n /), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. [1]