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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That "horn" is the trumpet with which Mr. Alpert climbed the pop charts first with "The Lonely Bull, " the garage recording he made in 1962 after hearing the sounds of a Mexican bullfight, followed by a string of singles in the '60s with his band, the Tijuana Brass.

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At the time, the trombone was a more refined instrument than either the trumpet or the horn.

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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 new technology of the early 1800s that produced the valve horn also made possible the valve trumpet.

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In later years, on stage, Hines rarely spoke about his big band, instead preferring to talk about what he called "trumpet-style piano, " in which he followed the lines of a horn soloist rather than approximating a full orchestra, as the ragtime and stride pianists were then doing.

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The sounds of soloists on the saxophone, the horn, the flute, and the clarinet flowed from the stage one by one, and finally the trumpet solos began.

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