| Title: | Horn |
| Original Title: | Cor |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 4 (1754), pp. 193–194 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Natalie Myers [University of Michigan] |
| Subject terms: |
Hunting
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Horn." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Natalie Myers. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.979>. Trans. of "Cor," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 4. Paris, 1754. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Horn." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Natalie Myers. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.979 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Cor," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 4:193–194 (Paris, 1754). |
HORN, Wind instrument for the use of hunters. It is coiled; gradually flaring from its mouthpiece to its bell. It is the boilermakers who make them. See Plate 7, Musical instrument making . A, B show the shape of the large horn ; C, D that of the horn with many holes; E, F the horn with only one turn and that one sees with its mouthpiece L, M, G, H, 1, 2, 3. See Large horn . N, O, the small horn, see Small horn . P, O, the post horn, see Cornet . There is nothing special about these instruments, except their mouthpieces, which are made of silver, copper, animal horn, wood, or other materials; and their bell D, F, O. One can give the horn the range of the trumpet, see Trumpet. But whatever the range that is given by its construction, it will always vary, according to the skill of the person who plays it. To sound the horn , one puts the lips to the mouthpiece, pressing it against the lips, either at one of the corners of the mouth or in the middle so that the tip of the tongue can creep into the mouthpiece and lead the air into the body of the instrument. The mouthpiece must be well applied, so that with whatever violence the air is pushed, it should escape by no place except the opening of the mouthpiece. It is the movement of the tongue and lips that alter the air, and it is the speeding up or slowing down of the force of air that forms the different tones. Concerts are given with multiple horns; in that case there must be a certain relationship between these instruments. If the biggest horn is six feet long it will sound a fifth below one that is only four feet long; and if one has a third that is only three feet long, it will sound a fourth below that of the second. There are horns with more or fewer twists; there are even some that have a sort of ring in their middle. One no longer uses those that have up to nine to ten twists. There are also cowherding horns ; but these are called cornets , or old billy goat cornets ( See Cornet). It was with >horns made of ram horns that Hebrew priests announced to the people the Jubilee, so called from this instrument, from which was derived jubel , which means ram’s horn.