NOUN
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
How To Use French horn In A Sentence
- The guitar - at least if the player picks, rather than strums - always struck me as temperamental an instrument as the French horn, even under the hands of a decent executant.
- He plays the piano and French horn and teaches music to help pay his way through uni.
- The Octet is scored for flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass, and piano.
- The instrumental ensemble is comprised of flute, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two French horns, and a double-bass.
- Many of you reading this will know that I am a keen player of that fine old brass instrument, the French Horn.
- The full orchestra includes two pairs of French horns.
- The full orchestra includes two pairs of French horns.
- (Piranha) three flugelhorns, sax, helicon tuba, and four tenor horns (an instrument that looks a bit like the French horn and is a standby of European military bands) blitz through tricky contrapuntal arrangements over hard-driving percussion played on a couple kinds of drums. Chicago Reader
- In one movement we hear recordings of the musicians 'voices as they played their virtuosic solos: here was the French horn player who wished he was a clarinettist; the contra-bassoonist who adores playing "low notes all day long"; the cellist who says of the audience, "the more they listen, the better we play". Michael Wolters sees into the minds of musicians
- An interesting point about galops: he said that in his circus bands he did not use French horns for galops as they could not speak fast enough.