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=== . ☺☻Journeys French Horn ☺☻ Hello and welcome to Journeys French Horn Section of the g7musicalinstruments wiki. On this page there is a presentation of the french horn. Stuff that includes the origin, how it works, famous french horn musicians and more will be showed.===

=﻿ ﻿The Origin =

The french horn is a very well known 'Brass' instrument used through out the world. This famous instrument has its earliest ancestors dating back to the cavemen. Over the years it has evovled to the state of perfection. The idea that it can evovle further and better is possible but the state that it is in at the moment makes that idea unlikely. In the early ages of the french horn it was used as a war notification tool. It had no buttons or valves it was just a circular pipe with a mouth piece where one would blow into it to produce a high pitched brass sound. The evolutionary main changes began in the early 19th century when a major change happened. vavles were added and finally the ability to be more pecise in your notes appeared and thus the use of multiple horns was thrown away as you can do it all in one compact instrument.

Comparison in French horn models. Below is todays model and to the right is an old version of the famous horn.



♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫ The Sound ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪ media type="custom" key="6659923"The sound of a french horn is a very recongnisable sound as it is the second highest pitched brass instrument. The sound is a fairly high pitched brass sound that has a pleasant ring that is known to be in most brass instruments. Although it has a high pitched sound it can also go extremely low which makes this instrument an all-rounder brass masterpiece.

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The french horn is able to make musical notes by blowing into the mouthpiece (french hor mouthpiece to the right) that is on the end of the instrument. From there the air travels through the 3.96m of pipes then comes out the end with its soothing brass sound. You can alter this sound in many ways, one of the ways you can alter the sound is by loosening or tightening your lips together. Tightening your lips will result in the sound being more high pitched, the tighter your lips the higher the pitch. Loosening will make the sound lower and depending on how loose your lips are it can go very low. Another way you can alter the sound is by pushing the four valves (three vavles if you have a single horn not the double horn but the single horn is not very common). Back in the 19th century there were many people playing the french horn but all of those people had the same problem. They found that when they got to the higher notes the sound became very unpredictable and that the accuracy was so slim that it was un-managable. Ed. Kruspe a famous German horn maker created a prototype horn that had a fourth valve and a whole new set of pipes. What the fourth valve did was that when you pressed it down it changed the direction the air was going and made it go into a new set of pipes. The new set of pipes had the same destination as the first set but the sound that they emitted was a much higher pitched sound and so i all it was two horns in one. This new advantage brought a new chapter into the book of the famous french horn as the the notes that you could go up to were once thought impossible to do on the french horn. With those three ways (1. Altering your grip on the mouthpiece 2. Using the three vavles to change the note on that horn 3. Use the fourth vavle to change between horns) you can make many, many combinations of musical notes and with skill and good use of multiple techniques you can make the french horn work in harmony.

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Throughout history there has been many famous french horn inspired musicians some of which stand out between the rest as there skill remains unmatched. One of the most famous french horn players is Vincent DeRosa. His invovlement