What are the features of a french horn?

Answer 1

French horns are typically used in orchestras as a role that are similar to trumpets: to act as a fanfare-like "battle call" instrument. They can be loud or soft, which make them very versatile instruments and of all the instruments in the brass family, the French horn is said to contain the most amount of tubing.
If stretched the french horn measures out 3.7m in length
it is well over 3m long OMG
The horn comes from a long tradition of instruments first used in ancient china,Egypt,and scaninavia.

In the 1600's the natural horn was used in the royal mounted hunt.

The horn became a regular member of the orchestra during the 1700's

Answer 2

The Trombone is like a fusion between high and low brass even though the trombone is considered low brass its in the middle and its the closest intrument to sound like a human voice. it is very well known for jazz also..

Answer 3

There are a lot of fun facts about the French Horn, but here are a few:

• The French Horn is obviously a member of the Brass family of instruments: constructed of brass (or at least metal) tubing, sounded by a brass-style (lip-reed) mouthpiece. And yet, while it sits easily in the Brass Quintet and other Brass ensembles, it is also considered irreplaceable in the Woodwind Quintet!
• The French Horn sits easily in the lap of its player, and can be lifted and carried with ease. However, the tubing, if stretched straight, would be about (and I do mean about!) 18' long. The 'double horn', which has two sets of valves and an additional valve which chooses between the sets, will be even longer.
• The French Horn is one of a small group of instruments which have changed little from their roots in the Renaissance. The natural horn is roughly the same length, has approximately the same bore size (although thicker walls) and pretty much the same bell diameter as the modern single Horn, and a good player can play most Baroque and Renaissance music that would have been played on a natural horn without touching his valves! The natural horn used "crooks" to change the key it played in: each crook was a turn of tubing which added just enough length to the over all horn to change the key properly. It was inserted between the mouthpiece and the horn. The valves of the modern horn do exactly the same thing, except that the tubing is 'switched' in by valves and are located more near the center of the horn's tube.
• French Horn players are known for having a bizarre sense of humor, although this may be stereotyping. It is generally felt that the Horn is so hard to play, that no one who lacks a bizarre sense of humor would stick with it.
• The Horn player puts his hand into the bell of the horn to play it. This is both utilitarian (since it allows the player to modify the tone and perhaps even the pitch as they play) and a holdover from the Natural Horn. By pressing their hand into the bell, the horn player could raise the pitch of the instrument by a half-tone, filling in the gaps between diatonic notes in the harmonic series.
  
• Here's one last one, at least for now: In the orchestra, the Horn section is divided into "high horns" and "low horns". Although the best players can play the entire range of the instrument with the same facility and beauty of tone, there was a time a century or two ago when horn players specialized in playing high or low.
  

Answer 4

like an Oboe but larger and sounds lower. Not English or a horn

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Answer 5

The french horn is a french horn