This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
One of the most important of wind musical instruments, much used in orchestral music and in military bands. It gets its name from the first horns having been made of the horns of animals. It produces a soft and peculiar tone, due to the length of the tube, which is coiled up into several rings, and has a large bell-shaped end.
 
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