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A pair of horns on a male impala Anatomy of an animal's horn. A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone. Horns are distinct from antlers, which are not permanent.
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.
Articles relating to horns, 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.
In cases where it was necessary to specify the older, hooped horn without crooks, the English called it the "French horn". [13] By the second decade of the eighteenth century horns had become regular members of continental orchestras. In 1713 Johann Mattheson stated, "the lovely, majestic hunting horns (Ital. Cornette di Caccia, Gall.
Horns, a dark fantasy novel written in 2010 by Joe Hill Horns, a 2013 film adaptation of Hill's novel "The Horns" (song), a 2015 song by DJ Katch "Horns" (song), by Gossip from the 2012 album A Joyful Noise "Horns" (Northern Exposure), a 1995 television episode; The Horns, Bull's Green, a pub in Hertfordshire, England
Horn (heraldry), common features in crests in Scandinavian and German heraldry; Horn family, Swedish noble family from Finland; Horn (surname), including a list of people with the name; Horn, part of a saddle; Hörn, or Freyja, a Norse goddess; Pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn; The horn, a slang term for telephone
Horns is a 2013 dark fantasy mystery comedy horror film directed by Alexandre Aja from a screenplay written by Keith Bunin, based on the 2010 novel by Joe Hill. It stars Daniel Radcliffe as a young man falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, who uses his newly discovered paranormal abilities to uncover the real killer.
True horns are found mainly among: Ruminant artiodactyls. Antilocapridae ; Bovidae (cattle, goats, antelopes etc.). Giraffidae: Giraffids have a pair of skin covered bony bumps on their heads, called ossicones. Cervidae: Most deer have antlers, which are not true horns due to lacking a bone core and made of keratin.