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A hornbook (horn-book) is a single-sided alphabet tablet, which served from medieval times as a primer for study, [1] and sometimes included vowel combinations, numerals or short verse. [2] The hornbook was in common use in England around 1450, [ 3 ] but may have originated more than a century earlier. [ 4 ]
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. C.G. Conn. Christopher Cornford [3] Daniel Rauch. Dieter Otto [4]
B♭ alto — up a perfect fourth. A — up a major third. G — up a major second. E — down a minor second. E♭ — down a major second (used for horn on pitches with multiple sharps until Richard Strauss) D — down a minor third. C — down a perfect fourth. B♭ basso — down a perfect fifth. Some less common transpositions include:
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Columbia Grafonola. The Columbia Grafonola is a brand of early 20th century American phonograph made by the Columbia Graphophone Company. Introduced in 1907, Grafonolas are internal horn alternatives to the same company's external horn Disc Graphophones. [ 1][ 2] Until late 1925, all record players reproduced sound by purely mechanical means ...
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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. The properties of this figure were first studied by Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista ...