Bugle

Horn is a nonspecific term for a variety of wind instruments and signal devices.

The concept

The name derives from the Horn of bovid ( Bovidae, including cattle, goats, sheep, antelope ), a hollow coating of keratin over a bone plug from. This structure dissolves easily, and was therefore used for diverse sound production. For this, the tip of the horn is to open to form a mouthpiece, and the conical shape serves as an excellent sound amplifier, the horn, a principle - is used under the name horn as design principle for Speakers - by analogy. The name originally stood independent of the material for all instruments from various animal horns, then for analog design.

A front oriental wind instrument made ​​of animal horn is the Jewish shofar. In the Vedic literature is called the ancient Indian Sanskrit horn trumpet on Shringa ( " animal horn " ), in some present-day North Indian languages ​​referred to the same word for animal horn, a metal trumpet. Latin cornu ( " horn " ) is the Iranian- Central Asian Karna trumpet and cornet in connection with.

Wind Instruments

• Natural horns, signaling and musical instruments without valves Snail horn ( trumpet snails or inaccurate conch called )
• The Roman Cornu
• Olifant
• Bugle
• Alphorn
• Post horn
• Hunting Horn
• Parforcehorn
• Trompe de Chasse
• Bugle

• French horn
• Flugelhorn
• Bugle
• Tenor Horn
• Baritone Horn

• English horn
• Colloquially sometimes called Saxophone

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Signal Devices

The design according to no horns are:

• The surcharge Horn
• The Diaphon
• That a siren ( siren )
• The bullhorn ( megaphone )
• The foghorn