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In 1939, Anthony James (T.J.) Getzen founded the Getzen Company, in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. Getzen had trained in instrument repair with the C.G. Conn company and worked as a plant superintendent for the Frank Holton Company. Initially opened as a repair shop, the company expanded after World War II to instrument manufacture. In 1946, Getzen ...
The collegiate models of clarinets, trumpets, cornets and saxophones cases were sewn with a leather binding and metal corner protectors were riveted in place for durability. French-horn, trombone, tube and baritone cases had a steel banding installed on the top to make the case rugged and prevent sheet music from falling out of the case.
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B ♭ (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most often used by players in professional orchestras and bands, although the descant and triple horn have become increasingly popular.
The list of horn makers spans all time, and not all still exist. Andreas Jungwirth [1] Atkinson Brass and Company [2] Briz Horn Company; Buescher Band Instrument Company; C.G. Conn; Christopher Cornford [3] Daniel Rauch; Dieter Otto [4] Ed. Kruspe; Engelbert Schmid [5] F. E. Olds; Finke [6] Gebr. Alexander; Hans Hoyer [7] Herbert Fritz Knopf [8 ...
Philip Farkas (1914–1992), principal horn of the Chicago Symphony, left what became Schilke Music Products in 1956 and joined with Holton, designing the Holton Farkas Model french horn. Ethel Merker (1923-2012), prominent horn player in Chicago, collaborated in the design and development of the Merker-Matic [ 16 ] line of horns.
However it did not supplant the French horn, which remained the dominant middle voice. Other less-popular bugle types introduced in the 1960 included herald trumpet bugles, euphoniums, pistonless slide sopranos and piccolo bugles or "angel bugles" pitched an octave above the sopranos. The valve-rotor bugle remained popular until the late 1970s ...
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Concertino for Horn and String Orchestra, Op. 45, No. 5; Benjamin Lees. Concerto for French horn and Orchestra; György Ligeti. Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano (1982) Hamburg Concerto (1998) Magnus Lindberg. Campana in Aria for horn and orchestra (1998) Trygve Madsen. Sonata, Op. 24; Josip Magdić. Concertino for Horn and instrumental ensemble