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  2. Horn (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The genus of animal-horn instruments to which the shofar belongs is called קרן (keren) in Hebrew, qarnu in Akkadian, and κέρας (keras) in Greek. [2] The olifant or oliphant (an abbreviation of the French cor d'olifant/oliphant, "elephant horn") was the name applied in the Middle Ages to ivory hunting or signalling horns made from ...

  3. Carnyx - Wikipedia

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    Carnyx from the Tintignac group. Three carnyx players depicted on plate E of the Gundestrup cauldron. The ancient carnyx was a wind instrument used by the Celts during the Iron Age, between c. 200 BC and c. AD 200. It was a type of trumpet made of bronze with an elongated S shape, held so that the long straight central portion was vertical and ...

  4. Cornu (horn) - Wikipedia

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    Cornu (horn) A cornu or cornum (Latin: cornū, cornūs or cornum, " horn ", sometimes translated misleadingly as " cornet "; pl.: cornua) was an ancient Roman brass instrument about 3 m (9.8 ft) long in the shape of a letter 'G'. The instrument was braced by a crossbar that stiffened the structure and provided a means of supporting its weight ...

  5. Natural horn - Wikipedia

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    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 century the natural horn evolved as a separation from the trumpet by widening the bell and lengthening the tubes. [ 1 ] It consists of a mouthpiece, long coiled tubing ...

  6. Crumhorn - Wikipedia

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    The crumhorn is a double reed instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, particularly since the 1960s, there has been a revival of interest in early music, and crumhorns are being played again. It was also spelled krummhorn, krumhorn, krum horn, [ 1 ] and cremorne.

  7. French horn - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Flugelhorn - Wikipedia

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    The flugelhorn (/ ˈfluːɡəlhɔːrn /), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. [1] Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B ♭, though some are in C. [2] It is a type of valved bugle, developed in Germany in the ...

  9. Greek musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Greek musical instruments were grouped under the general term "all developments from the original construction of a tortoise shell with two branching horns, having also a cross piece to which the stringser from an original three to ten or even more in the later period, like the Byzantine era ". Greek musical instruments can be classified into ...