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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.
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.
The list of horn makers spans all time, and not all still exist. Andreas Jungwirth [1] Atkinson Brass and Company [2] Briz Horn Company; Buescher Band Instrument Company;
This allowed the horn to develop into a more useful melodic instrument, eventually becoming the instrument known today as the French horn. [ 3 ] [ failed verification ] In 1818, Friedrich Blühmel and Heinrich Stölzel registered a patent for their two-valve chromatic horn.
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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.
A list of baritone horn, euphonium, tenor horn, tenor tuba and marching baritone horn manufacturers past and present. Most of these companies produce or produced tenor brass as part of an overall band instrument catalogue.