Horn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Simmern.

The German horn is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell, and in bands and orchestras is the most widely used of three types of horn, the other two being the French horn (in the less common, narrower meaning of the term) and the Vienna horn.

This pair of horns is of a transitional design that spans the instrument’s journey from the hunt to the orchestra. Although they could have been used in an outdoor context, they are representative of the more compact form of the horn that appeared with increasing frequency in orchestras in the first decades of the 18th century.

The 17th century fashion for large looped cor de chasse emerged from the French court and quickly became popular throughout Europe. Initially the hunting horn was brought into the orchestra as a sound effect, suggesting the outdoors and chivalry associated with the instrument.

5. German Horn. The German horn is often mistakenly called the French horn. The French horn resembles the trumpet as it uses pistol valves, but the German horn uses rotary valves. A third type of famous horn, the Vienna horn uses double-piston valves and is therefore, closely related to the French horn than the German horn is.

2012年2月18日 · In its simplest form a horn is a conical tube which when blown makes noise via an air column vibrated by the lips. Human beings figured out pretty quickly that there were many things that when blown on made noise, so the earliest horn-like instruments date from long before recorded history.

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Title: English Horn. Maker: H. Grenser. Date: before 1807. Geography: Dresden, Germany. Culture: German. Medium: Wood, ivory, brass. Dimensions: Total L.: 63.7 cm (25-1/8 in.) Classification: Aerophone-Reed Vibrated-double reed. Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1980. Object Number: 1980.111a, b

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Horn, the orchestral and military brass instrument derived from the trompe (or cor) de chasse, a large circular hunting horn that appeared in France about 1650 and soon began to be used orchestrally. Use of the term French horn dates at least from the 17th century.