Tenor horn

Tenor horn (Fr.: bugle ténor, bugle basse; Ger.: Tenorhorn; It.: tenore in si♭), valved brass instr. of the cornet family, with narrow conical bore and medium-sized bell, 3 valves, played with a cup mouthpiece. It is usually built in B♭, but occasionally also in C and A, with a compass E0–b♭1 for the B♭ instr., notated a 9th higher. Today the narrow cornet bore has been largely abandoned outside Italy, and the instr. now closely approaches the tuba. According to Sachs, Wilhelm Wieprecht…