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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.
Arranger. Instrument. French horn. Years active. 1941–1962. Labels. Trend, Decca, VSOP. John Graas (March 14, 1917 – April 13, 1962) was an American jazz French horn player, composer, and arranger from the 1940s through 1962. He had a short but busy career on the West Coast, and became known as a pioneer of the French horn in jazz.
David Werner Amram(grandfather) Musical artist. David Werner Amram III(born November 17, 1930) is an American composer, arranger, and conductorof orchestral, chamber, and choralworks, many with jazz flavorings.[2] He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, and pennywhistle, and sings. [3] Early life and education.
Musician. Instrument. French horn. Years active. 1940s–1970s. Labels. Blue Note. Julius Watkins (October 10, 1921 – April 4, 1977) [1] was an American jazz musician who played French horn. [2] Described by AllMusic as "virtually the father of the jazz French horn", [3] Watkins won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for ...
James Lawrence Buffington (May 15, 1922, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania – July 20, 1981, Englewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz, studio, and classical hornist. [ 1 ] Buffington was a busy studio and jazz player on the French horn. He was an autodidact as a child, though his father played piano and trumpet. He graduated from the Eastman ...
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 ...
A musician who plays the French horn, like the players of the German and Vienna horns (confusingly also sometimes called French horns), is called a horn player (or less frequently, a hornist). Three valves control the flow of air in the single horn, which is tuned to F or less commonly B ♭. Although double French horns do exist, they are rare.
Unable to make the rent at times, Holton was known to pawn instruments at a shop on Clark Street between 1898 and 1900. [7] By 1907, a skilled horn maker had been hired, and the production of Holton instruments required the construction of a factory on the West Side of Chicago. [7] It would be home to Frank Holton & Company for only a decade.