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French horn

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French horn
n.
A valved brass wind instrument that produces a mellow tone from a long narrow tube that is coiled in a circle before ending in a flaring bell.

French horn
n
(Music / Instruments) Music a valved brass instrument with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece and a tube of conical bore coiled into a spiral. It is a transposing instrument in F. Range: about three and a half octaves upwards from B on the second leger line below the bass staff See horn
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Noun1.French hornFrench horn - a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
brass instrument, brass - a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
Translations
French horn n (Mus) → corno da caccia
French horn n (Mus) → corno da caccia

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Alex loved music too much to leave it behind, so he learned to play the French horn (using the other hand for fingering).
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