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French horn
Word forms: plural French horns
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A French horn is a musical instrument of the brass family. It is shaped like a long metal tube with one wide end, wound round in a circle. You play the French horn by blowing into it and moving valves in order to obtain different notes.
French horn in British English
noun
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
hornFrench horn in American English
a brass instrument with a mellow tone, consisting of a long, spiral tube ending in a flaring bell, three valves, and a funnel-shaped mouthpiece: horn is the term preferred by musicians playing classical music
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British English: French horn /frɛntʃ hɔːn/ NOUN
A French horn is a musical instrument shaped like a long round metal tube with one wide end, which is played by blowing into it.
- American English: French horn
- Arabic: بُوْقٌ فَرَنسِيّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: trompa de pistons
- Chinese: 法国号
- Croatian: francuski rog
- Czech: lesní roh
- Danish: valdhorn
- Dutch: hoorn
- European Spanish: trompa de pistones
- Finnish: käyrätorvi
- French: cor d’harmonie
- German: Waldhorn
- Greek: γαλλικό κόρνο
- Italian: corno da caccia
- Japanese: フレンチホルン
- Korean: 프렌치혼
- Norwegian: valthorn
- Polish: waltornia
- European Portuguese: trompa de harmonia
- Romanian: corn francez
- Russian: валторна
- Latin American Spanish: corneta francesa
- Swedish: valthorn
- Thai: แตรทองเหลืองรูปร่างโค้งงอ
- Turkish: korno
- Ukrainian: валторна
- Vietnamese: kèn tây