saxhorn

Saxhorns were widely used in military and civilian bands and are the forebears of the modern euphonium, tenor horn and baritone. Saxhorns were designed as a uniform family of instruments with members ranging from soprano to contrabass. All shared a simililar tubing layout, bore profile and valve system.

The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E♭ horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family and is usually pitched in E♭. It has a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and euphonium, and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece.

Developed during the mid-to-late 1830s, the saxhorn family was patented in Paris in 1845 by Adolphe Sax. During the 19th century, the debate as to whether the saxhorn family was truly new, or rather a development of previously existing instruments, was the subject of prolonged lawsuits.

The horn is a brass instrument whose soft resonant timbre allows it to harmonize well with both brass and woodwind instruments. One of the unique aspects of this instrument is that the player keeps a hand in the bell while playing.

Saxhorns, from sopranino to contrabass, have a wide buglelike bore, in contrast to Sax's parallel but short-lived saxo-tromba family, and they are frequently called by the names of other valved brass instruments of similar pitch.

During the American Civil War, most brass bands used a branch of the brass family known as saxhorns, which, by today's standards, have a narrower bore taper than tuba - the same as true cornets and baritones but distinct from trumpets, euphoniums, and others with different tapers or no taper.

Characteristics of a Sax Horn are a smaller bell than a euphonium, a very conical shape, a very long lead pipe with the tuning before the valves and a bell closer the the player than with a euphonium.

If you're in an orchestra setting, horns means the French horns. Otherwise, it's kind of just a colloquial catch-all for wind instruments. Most of the jazz players I did instrument work for called trumpets, trombones, and saxes horns.

: to join in something (such as a conversation) without invitation or consent : intrude. … awkwardly horning in during a high-level chat …

Despite a list of names that includes the alto horn, tenor horn, and baritone, there are actually only two types of instruments in the saxhorn family. Some countries, however, use three or more categories for these two types of instruments.

The flugelhorn is a unique brass instrument of German descent. Developed in the early 19th century some historians believe it is a member of the saxhorn family and was developed by Adolphe Sax while others believe it derives from the valve bugle and was designed by Michael Saurle.

The word for "horn" in German is "horn," in French "cor," and in Italian "corno." The terms "cor" and "corno" originally meant an animal's horn, directly expressing the animal origins of the horn. It is most likely that people from ancient times turned the horns of their prey into musical instruments.