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Natural horns (423.121.2) and natural trumpets (423.1). Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. * Natural horn players (4 P)
He succeeded in designing the 'C', 'D' and 'E Flat' trumpets and subsequently the "Custom-Crafted" series of B flat trumpets that featured one-piece hand-hammered bells. By the 1960s, Olds was producing trumpets, cornets, slide and valve trombones , alto horns , mellophones , french horns , euphoniums , tubas and sousaphones .
Essentially, it was a straight trumpet like the tuba, to which an animal-horn trumpet was attached to act as a bell; it is not unlike the Celtic carnyx. The lituus was a cult instrument used in Roman rituals and does not appear to have had any military uses, though the term was later used in the Middle Ages to denote a military trumpet.
Ethel Merker (1923-2012), prominent horn player in Chicago, collaborated in the design and development of the Merker-Matic [16] line of horns. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Maynard Ferguson (1928–2006), trumpet and flugelhorn virtuoso and namesake of the Holton Maynard Ferguson Trumpet line, performed as a Holton artist and designer starting in the 1960s.
Brass instrument; Other names: būq al-nafīr [1] nefir (Turkish spelling): Classification: Brass: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 423.121 (Natural trumpets – There are no means of changing the pitch apart from the player's lips; end-blown trumpets – The mouth-hole faces the axis of the trumpet.)
The flugelhorn's mouthpiece is more deeply conical than either trumpet or cornet mouthpieces, but not as conical as a French horn mouthpiece. Some modern flugelhorns feature a fourth valve that lowers the pitch by a perfect fourth (similar to the fourth valve on some euphoniums, tubas, and piccolo trumpets, or the trigger on trombones). This ...
An offstage instrument or choir part in classical music is a sound effect used in orchestral and opera which is created by having one or more instrumentalists (trumpet players, also called an "offstage trumpet call", horn players, woodwind players, percussionists, other instrumentalists) from a symphony orchestra or opera orchestra play a note, melody, or rhythm from behind the stage, or ...
The Phenix Horns, [1] originally known as the EWF Horns, were the main horn section for the band Earth, Wind & Fire. The horn section was composed of Don Myrick on saxophone , Louis "Lui Lui" Satterfield on trombone , Rahmlee Michael Davis on trumpet , Michael Harris on trumpet and Harry Kim on trumpet.