Newer, easier-to-play horns with valves could blend nicely into the background ... Sponsor Message But Brahms didn't appreciate the newfangled French horn. He once mocked the instrument, calling ...

Despite its richly resonant sound, the French horn has been classed as an ‘endangered instrument’ in the UK, alongside the likes of the bassoon, oboe and double bass ... horn using his toes to move ...

but it is Heinrich Stölzel who is credited with affixing the first documented valve to his Waldhorn (the instrument we now call the french horn) in 1814. By most accounts, Stölzel's system used ...

The French horn, double bass and trombone are being neglected, according to a recent survey while the ukelele is on the rise, with one in eight schoolchildren wanting to play it. The results have led ...

The distinctive horn has three normal valves and a fourth piston valve in the middle of the instrument that makes it different from most traditional French horns, Mr Fisher said.