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  2. Blowing horn - Wikipedia

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    The blowing horn or winding horn is a sound device that is usually made of or shaped like an animal horn, arranged to blow from a hole in the pointed end of it. This rudimentary device had a variety of functions in many cultures, in most cases reducing its scope to exhibiting, celebratory or group identification purposes ( signal instrument ).

  3. Vuvuzela - Wikipedia

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    "The Dinner Horn" ("Blowing the Horn at Seaside"), by Winslow Homer, 1870. Plastic aerophones, like corneta and similar devices, have been used in Brazil and other Latin American countries since the 1960s, also similar "Stadium Horns" have been marketed and available in the United States since that same date.

  4. Lur - Wikipedia

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    A lur, also lure or lurr, is a long natural blowing horn without finger holes that is played with a brass-type embouchure. Lurs can be straight or curved in various shapes. The purpose of the curves was to make long instruments easier to carry (e.g. for marching, like the modern sousaphone) and to avoid directing the loud noise at nearby people.

  5. Conch (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    Conch (US: / k ɒ ŋ k / konk, UK: / k ɒ n tʃ / kontch [1]), or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a wind instrument that is made from a conch, the shell of several different kinds of sea snails. Their natural conical bore is used to produce a musical tone. Conch shell trumpets have been played in many Pacific ...

  6. Air horn - Wikipedia

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    Larger air horns used on ships and foghorns function similarly to a whistle; instead of a diaphragm the air escapes from a closed cylindrical resonator chamber through a precisely shaped slit directed against a knife edge . The air blowing past the knife edge oscillates, creating sound waves.

  7. Gjallarhorn - Wikipedia

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    Bronze horn from 899-700 B.C. Påarp, Sweden. Heimdallr blows into Gjallarhorn in an 1895 illustration by Lorenz Frølich. In Norse mythology, Gjallarhorn (Old Norse: [ˈɡjɑlːɑrˌhorn]; "hollering horn" [1] or "the loud sounding horn" [2]) is a horn associated with the god Heimdallr and the wise being Mímir.

  8. Gabriel's horn - Wikipedia

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    A Gabriel's horn (also called Torricelli's trumpet) is a type of geometric figure that has infinite surface area but finite volume. The name refers to the Christian tradition where the archangel Gabriel blows the horn to announce Judgment Day .

  9. Fall of Jericho - Wikipedia

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    God commanded Joshua to go around the walls of Jericho for six days, once every day, and seven times on the seventh day. God commanded the city to be attacked by seven priests blowing horns, with the Ark of the Covenant in front of them and all the people behind the Ark of the Covenant. They encircled the wall of Jericho once a day for the ...