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| The horn has a velvety, round tone color that projects well across other instruments without overpowering them. It is sometimes called the French horn. Its long tube is wound in a circle, and flares out into a big bell. The valves and their extra tubing are in the center of the circle. When you unwind a horn, the tubing can be as long as twelve feet! |
Composer: Strauss Piece: Till Eulenspiegel Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra Conductor: Szell |
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Our horn player, Courtney, shows you how to hold the horn. It's balanced on her leg, but she holds it up between her two hands. Her left hand works the valves that help to change the horn's pitch, and her right hand is held inside the bell. She can vary the volume, pitch and tone of the horn by how she moves her right hand inside the bell.
The very first horns were made from the horns of animals. By breaking off the horn's tip and blowing down the hole, you could sound a note. These horns were used during hunts, to give directions to the hunters. Later, horns were made of metal. But they didn't have valves and were just one long piece of tubing coiled around in a circle. |
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