"It's something I can do for hours." The biggest challenge was not an obvious physical one, it was making the French horn actually sound like a French horn. It consists of a 12ft brass tube ...

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 ...

I came across the French horn entirely by accident ... The main difference to adjust to, was the sound and style of the BBC. I definitely had to be a lot more alert and aware of what was going ...

Have you ever seen a picture or painting of an instrument and thought, “What the heck is that?” Join us as we count down our top ten most weird and wonderful instruments.

there’s a dash of French horn or sousaphone and a hint of creaking metal door in there too.” Here a long-lost noise dislodged from our planet’s Cretaceous past is familiar but new, ordinary but ...

Wu Wei plays a mean sheng. What’s a sheng, you ask? It’s a Chinese mouth organ with an ancestry that dates back three ...

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Or those fresh red looks (you can get yellow if you really want to). The beep-sound of these horns work amazingly to penetrate into other vehicles, plus they have Teflon bits inside to protect ...

and cuts at the other end that would have made it easier to insert a hand to modulate the sound - in the same way a French horn player might insert their hand into the bell of the instrument to ...

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For a fancier solution, [Tom Hammond] whipped up a custom car horn capable of playing a wide variety of sounds. The system uses the Adafruit Audio FX board. This is a unique part, which is ...

Then a camouflaged speaker that scientists had placed nearby started to play. First came a recorded honk from an unpartnered ...