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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 player puts their hand in the bell end to change the sound of the instrument, and gets different notes by pressing down valves, which block off holes. I started playing the french horn when I ...

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.

A video of actor Ewan McGregor performing Mozart’s Horn Concerto No ... bow (or should we say… valves to his brass?). A video has come to the universe’s attention that features a 16-year-old Ewan ...

But look closer still and you'll clock a suave French horn player ... hand to support the horn and the other to create the sound? Without fingers, how would he use the valves to change the ...