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Definition: Saxhorn |
SaxhornNoun1. Any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Fine Arts | Brass instrument with cup-shaped mouth-piece and conical bore; the bore of the saxhorns is wider than that of the true horns, and that of the fluegelhorns wider than that of the saxhorns. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The saxhorn is a brass instrument with a characteristic tapered bore and a deep cup-shaped mouthpiece, blending elements of other brass families like trumpets and horns. Developed possibly in the mid- to late-1830s, they were patented in Paris in 1845. Like saxophones they were designed for band use and built - for interchangeability of fingering etc - in alternating Bb and Eb pitches. The modern flugelhorn, tenor horn (alto horn in the US), euphonium, and tuba are survivors of this family.
By constantly experimenting, Sax changed the saxhorn's valve pattern during the mid-1850s, and eventually created a family of more than ten models of different sizes. Saxhorns were popularized by the distinguished Distin Quintet, who toured Europe during the mid-nineteenth century. This family of musicians, publishers and instrument manufacturers had a significant impact on the growth of the brass band movement in Great Britain during the mid-to late-1800s. A contemporary work featuring this instrument is Desire Dondeyne's "Tubissimo", for bass tuba or saxhorn and piano (1983).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Saxhorn."
Crosswords: Saxhorn |
| English words defined with "saxhorn": Althorn. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "saxhorn": saxophone, Sax-tuba. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Saxhorn" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (saxhorn), Romanian (saxhorn), Swedish (saxhorn). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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saxhorn | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "saxhorn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | saksgorn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | السكهرون آلة موسيقية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | саксхорн. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | saxhorn (fluegelhorn), flygelhorn (fluegelhorn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | saxhoorn (fluegelhorn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | saxhorn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fluegelhorn (fluegelhorn), Buegelhorn (bugle, fluegelhorn, key bugle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαξοκόρνα (euphonium, fluegelhorn, tenor tuba). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szaxkürt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | flicorno (fluegelhorn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | axhornsay saxorne (fluegelhorn), saxo, fliscorne (fluegelhorn), corneta de pistões (cornet, fluegelhorn). (various references) saxhorn. (various references) саксгорн. (various references) saksov rog. (various references) bombardino (fluegelhorn). (various references) saxhorn. (various references) แตรทองเหลือง. (various references) sakshorn, üflemeli bir çalgı. (various references) саксогорн. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "saxhorn": saxhorns. (additional references) | |
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"Saxhorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sahour, Saphorin, sathor, saxor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-n-o-r-s-x" | |
-1 letter: shoran. | |
-2 letters: arson, axons, hoars, horas, horns, roans, sharn, shorn, sonar. | |
-3 letters: axon, hoar, hoax, hons, hora, horn, naos, nosh, oars, osar, rash, rhos, roan, soar, sora, sorn. | |
-4 letters: ars, ash, hao, has, hon, nah, noh, nor, nos, oar, ohs, ons, ora, ors, rah, ran, ras, rax, rho, sax, sha, son, sox. | |
-5 letters: ah, an, ar, as, ax, ha, ho, na, no, oh, on, or, os, ox, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-n-o-r-s-x" | |
+1 letter: saxhorns. | |
+3 letters: chronaxies. | |
+4 letters: hexahedrons, nasopharynx. | |
+5 letters: exhortations, heteroauxins, oropharynxes, thromboxanes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 78 68 6F 72 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01111000 01101000 01101111 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a x h o r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0078 0068 006F 0072 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53679074818480 |
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