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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.
The French horn (as distinct from the German and Vienna horns), is also usually referred to simply as the "horn" by orchestral players. The bore of the French horn is small, between 10.8 and 11 mm, compared to 11.5 mm for the German horn, but not as small as the Vienna horn at 10.7 mm.
Heinrich David Stölzel (7 September 1777 – 16 February 1844) was a German horn player who developed some of the first valves for brass instruments.He developed the first valve for a brass musical instrument, the Stölzel valve, in 1818, and went on to develop various other designs, some jointly with other inventor musicians.
The cornet is sometimes erroneously considered a valved bugle, but the cornet was derived from more narrow-bored instruments, the French cornet de poste (lit. ' post horn ') and cor de chasse (lit. ' hunting horn '). Keyed bugles (German: Klappenhorn) were invented in the early 19th century.
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 centuries, the natural horn evolved as a separation from the trumpet by widening the bell and lengthening the tubes. [ 1 ]
1 basset horn 1 bass clarinet 1 contrabass clarinet 3–4 bassoons 1 contrabassoon Brass 4–8 French horns, German horns, or Vienna horns (more rarely natural horns) of which some might play 2–4 Wagner tubas – 2 tenors, 2 bass 3–6 trumpets in F, and other keys including C, B ♭ of which some might play 1 bass trumpet 3–4 cornets
The added word "French" is still found in some tutors and instrumental books, but is now regarded as a colloquialism, having passed out of the usage of composers, scholars, and professional players since about 1930 because of the increasing ubiquity of the German horn. [4] Since that time, the true French horn's use has been confined mainly to ...
The Wagner tuba is a four-valve brass instrument commissioned by and named after Richard Wagner.It combines technical features of both standard tubas and French horns, [1] though despite its name, the Wagner tuba is more similar to the latter, and usually played by horn players.