There are larger physical challenges as well, since Wagner tuba players double on the French horn during the "Ring" when needed.

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Because of its range and mouthpiece, this tuba-shaped hybrid is actually played by members of the French horn section, but never mind.

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This can be done using either valves as on the French horn, trumpet, and tuba or a slide, as on the trombone.

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There was even a session made under the leadership of Julius Watkins, one of the few jazzmen to try and make a go of the French horn as a bebop instrument.

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The FRENCH HORN is called "French" only in English.

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Among the chamber music works that feature the French horn, the two best known and best loved are undoubtedly the Mozart Horn Quintet (1782) and the Brahms Horn Trio (trio for horn, violin, and piano, 1865).

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If you straightened out all the tubing on a French horn, for example, it would be about seventeen feet long.

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Among the musicians was Schuller himself, a young French Horn player.

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There are relatively few solo compositions for trombone, and the trombone is rarely featured in chamber music, although the French composer Francis Poulenc wrote an excellent trio for trombone, trumpet, and horn (1922).

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The saxophone is so flexible in its sound, it can sound like an oboe, a bassoon, a French horn, a flute.

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