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  2. German horn - Wikipedia

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    German single horn in B ♭ From the second half of the nineteenth century until the 1920s, "German horn" meant the most common type of F horn, with a bore as wide as 11.5 mm (0.453 in) in the cylindrical valve portion of the instrument. It had three rotary valves and was fitted with a slide-crook which also served as a master tuning slide.

  3. Mellophone - Wikipedia

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    Mellophone fingerings are the same as the trumpet. [3] It is typically pitched lower, in the key of F or E ♭. The overtone series of the F mellophone is an octave above that of the F horn. The tubing length of a mellophone is the same as that of the F-alto (high) single horn or the F-alto (high) branch of a triple horn or double-descant horn.

  4. Marching brass - Wikipedia

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    The drum and bugle corps activity has been a driving force of innovation behind the creation of marching brass instruments for many decades. The mellophone and the contrabass bugle are among the creations spawned by instrument manufacturers for use in the marching activity due to the influence of drum and bugle corps hornlines.

  5. Flugelhorn - Wikipedia

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    The flugelhorn (/ ˈ f l uː ɡ əl h ɔːr n /), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet, but has a wider, more conical bore. [1]

  6. Pitch of brass instruments - Wikipedia

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    Horn notation is a complex subject beyond the scope of this article, but what is written as middle C for the horn is the fourth harmonic of the unlengthened instrument, not the second. Horn music makes greater use of the higher range of the harmonic series than do most other modern brass instruments.

  7. Martinshorn - Wikipedia

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    The Martinshorn (also known as the Martin's trumpet and Schalmei) is a German free reed aerophone created in 1880 by Max Bernhardt Martin, who was also the main manufacturer of the instruments. [1] The Martinshorn contains several reeds, each of which having its own horn. [2] The instrument was created in imitation of the saxhorn. [3]

  8. Hornbostel–Sachs - Wikipedia

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    Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie in 1914. [1]

  9. Heckelphone - Wikipedia

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    The heckelphone is a double reed instrument of the oboe family, but with a wider bore and hence a heavier and more penetrating tone. It is pitched an octave below the oboe and furnished with an additional semitone taking its range down to A. [3] It was intended to provide a broad oboe-like sound in the middle register of the large orchestrations of the turn of the twentieth century.