French hornnoun [ C ]
uk/ˌfrentʃ ˈhɔːn/us/ˌfrentʃ ˈhɔːrn/a musical instrument that consists of a long metal tube bent into circles, with a wide opening at one end, played by blowing down the tube and moving the fingers on valves
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- alphorn
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- bagpipes
- dulcimer
- English horn
- euphonium
- fingerboard
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- pitched
- plectrum
- reed
- reed instrument
- sax
- viola
- violin
- violoncello
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Examples from literature
- Here a female now and then entertains the company with a solo on the French horn.
- In that time we had a neighbour in the same court who taught the French horn.
- Moreover, he was a musician, and before the war had played the French horn in the town band.
- The French horn is the most important brass instrument in modern music.
- The rumbling of carriages, and the rattling of horses' feet on the pavement, was intermingled with loud shouts, and the noise of fiddle, French horn, and bagpipe.