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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2009-10-21 21:08
Since when has the clarinet been a horn ? I always thought it was a pipe, like the flute & oboe. Maybe the saxophone could pass off as a horn , it having a bore that flares out like a saxhorn. But the others, definitely pipes. Perhaps it is a hand-me-down term from the jazz players.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-10-21 21:16
That's right - they call both brass and woodwind 'horns' as a generic term. Horn sections in small bands such as funk or soul bands are usually saxes, trumpets and trombones - one of each or several of each.
The only woodwinds actually called horns are basset horn and cor anglais (or 'English horn' if you prefer).
Gemshorns are made from cow horns and are fipple flutes like recorders.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2009-10-21 21:17)
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2009-10-21 21:17
I use "horn" as a slang term for any instrument you blow into (flute, sax, clarinet, trombone, trumpet, etc.). I guess it comes from jazzers. I don't use it for my tin whistles though!
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-10-21 23:21
When it has a bell, it is a horn.
And when it doesn't have a reed, it should sit far, far in the back.
--
Ben
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Author: blazian
Date: 2009-10-22 02:46
I caught myself calling one of my section member's instruments a horn. Shame on me. I told myself to always call a bass by its name. Oh well.
It's easier to use "horn" because you're almost never wrong. When would a woodwind squad leader tell a percussion dude to fix something? Not often luckily. ![[rotate]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley25.gif)
- Martin
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2009-10-22 12:40
>> When would a woodwind squad leader tell a percussion dude to fix something? Not often luckily.>>
Percussionists do make themselves useful if cockroaches invade the band room. Apparently a little roach-juice doesn't hurt the mallets.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-10-22 13:13
If you blow into it it's a horn, it's also an axe, it's also a wind instrument, it's also just part of the "winds". Get over what it's called, it's still a great "horn". ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
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Author: John25
Date: 2009-10-22 13:42
In all my many (!!) years of playing in classical/orchestral circles, I have never heard anyone refer to a flute, oboe or clarinet as a "horn". Is this because on this side of the pond "horn" is used exclusively for the long, brass curly instrument, or do British jazz players call their clarinets and saxes "horns"? Can anyone tell me?
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Author: kdolan01
Date: 2009-10-22 16:42
i often get dirty looks from brass players when i call my c-net a horn....but i do anyway!
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Author: DixieSax
Date: 2009-10-22 16:45
A horn is a horn is a horn.
Way too many people get way too worked up over way too trivial of matters.
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Author: soybean
Date: 2009-10-22 18:08
A horn is found on an animal, right?
~Dan
(Leblanc Bliss, Buffet R13 key of A, Yamaha 250 Bb)
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Author: DixieSax
Date: 2009-10-22 18:22
And an orchestra and a bull are opposites because.. wait for it..
The bull has the horns in the front and the a** in the back...
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2009-10-22 19:39
The worst thing:
A dude playing the Schumann Fantasy Pieces on a French Horn.
Man, you couldn't even hear the piano.
Alzo, there's a youTube performance of a Brahms Clarinet/Pia sonata performed on a Frog Horn, too.
But, worse, is that horrid, unmusical, badly phrased performance of the Brahms Sonatas on a (shudder) viola --strictly NOT a horn.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Wicked Good ★2017
Date: 2009-10-22 20:56
This is probably the silliest thing to waste time worrying about I've seen. Go practice instead.
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Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2009-10-22 21:40
You are so right Wicked Good. I will go do some creative practice on my single reed pipe. Oh pardon, I mean Clarinet I'll leave the horn playing to the REAL horn people, the brass players.
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Author: maskedridersean
Date: 2009-10-23 06:18
I call it my personal weapon of choice.
At the airport:
"Is this your laptop?"
"No, its my clarinet"
...."please come with me sir"
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