Horn

Horn (Fr.: cor; Ger.: Horn; It.: corno; Sp.: trompa), 1. lip-vibrated wind instr. originally made of animal horn or tusk, later imitated in wood or metal (a trumpet, on the other hand, was originally made of a length of straight bamboo or wood). As Sachs pointed out, in Europe horns are more conical than cylindrical and trumpets more cylindrical than conical, but this does not hold true elsewhere. In ancient Egypt, for instance, trumpets had conical bores throughout. Conicity can therefore not…