There, the velvety sound of his French horn fills the space. "In a finished basement, you have a lot of drywall and carpeting. It absorbs the sound. There's no ring to it," he explains.

A long, slender metal tube about 12 feet in length, the French horn coils into a circular shape and ends in a large flared ”bell.” A musician produces sounds by vibrating the lips and blowing ...

And when she’s not on the concert stage or turning sonatas into salsas, she’s touring the world with a unique instrumental challenge for fellow musicians. It’s called Sarah’s Horn Challenge, where the ...

The all-female horn quartet Genghis Barbie performs on The American Sound, 6 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Tuesday on Classical 101. It’s 2009, and the Great Recession is draining bank accounts and ...

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Or perhaps, he says, it is the peculiar sounds of the Dufrasne horn exercises he moves through, with their birdsong-like high notes, and octatonic scales, with their haunting half-steps.

In symphony orchestras such as the Salisbury Symphony, the instrument is now referred to simply as the “horn,” but its appearance in performances still sounds much like it did during those ...