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A little nit-pick: I don't believe a saxophone qualifies as a "horn". The term "horn" usually refers to wind instruments where the player blows into it and vib
by Grishnakh 11y ago
A little nit-pick: I don't believe a saxophone qualifies as a "horn". The term "horn" usually refers to wind instruments where the player blows into it and vibrates their lips. These would be trumpets (very commonly also called "horns"), trombones, French horns, and tubas. A saxophone is a derivative of a clarinet, which is a reed instrument. The player blows into it, but the sound is produced by a vibrating reed which the player manipulates with their tongue.
- spacemanmatt 11y agoThrough grade school and some college experience in band (alto, tenor, and baritone saxophone!) we called all the instruments horns. Even percussion mallets/sticks. It was just a formality of dealing with field orders during football/marching season, including "horns up."
- zhemao 11y agoJazz and brass band musicians refer to all wind instruments as horns. It's a colloquial term, not a technical one. If we were to go with the technical definition, trumpets and trombones wouldn't be considered horns either, because they have cylindrical bores instead of conical bores.
- gtani 11y agothe old joke about a classical and jazz player meeting: Jazzer: "What do you play" Classical: "Horn" J: "What kind, sax, trumpet, bone?" C: "There's only one instrument called "horn" you rube, and cor anglais doesn't qualify" J: "Cor anglais??"