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Definition of Saxhorns
1. saxhorn [n] - See also: saxhorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saxhorns
Literary usage of Saxhorns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Technique of the Modern Orchestra: A Manual of Practical Instrumentation by Charles Marie Widor (1906)
"This is a separate group of absolutely different timbre from the other brass
instruments, the tube of the saxhorns being conical, instead of cylindrical ..."
2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"4 saxhorns in Ъ& (Cornets). (Euphoniums). 4 Contrabass Saxhorn» 4 Ditto ...
2 Bugles in B7- 2 saxhorns, baritone, 2 Horns in E 7- B7. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The saxhorns came into being in 1843, when Sax applied a modification of the
valve system invented in Germany in 1815 to the keyed bugle. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1889)
"He adapted the German invention of the valve to all classes of brass instruments,
and gave them the generic name of saxhorns, Sax- tromba, ..."
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