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[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Trumpeter here, I'd be insulted if I was called a horn. Might be regional, but that's not common here. If we're speaking about horns, it's only French horns

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Another trumpeter here. If it was a wind instrument that didn't have a reed it was called a horn.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

The piccolo flute is a horn?

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't brass more commonly used?

"Brass" "woodwind" and "Percussion" were the clinical anatomy textbook words and "horn" "wind" and "drum" were the casual everyday words.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Enh, in my experience "horn" refers to a French horn, but "horns" refers to all brass (separate from woodwinds, percussion, etc).

But yeah, if somebody referred to a horn, I'd assume they meant French horn.

[–] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Trumpets are stored in the horns

[–] Malpraxion@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't look like that article says anything about trumpets to me. It does link to this article about horns, though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument)

That one says:

In horns, unlike some other brass instruments such as the trumpet, the bore gradually increases in width through most of its length—that is to say, it is conical rather than cylindrical.[1]

Which seems to specifically exclude trumpets from horns.

Most of these horn sections feature some combination of saxophones, trumpets and trombones.

Also the popular music section includes two photos with people playing trumpet and lists a bunch of horn sections, most of which contain trumpets.

In my experience its very common, just to give a counterpoint. "Bring in the horns" to denote a trumpet heavy section, or just referring to the brass section as "the horn section". 8dk might just be reguonal i guess but its colloquial.

Can agree. Where I live horn only refers to Alto Horns. Trumpets are something different.

Well, yeah...you play the horn, you aren't a horn yourself. Horns don't even have thumbs.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely no offense intended... But you sound like an asshole

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

How do you think a guitarist would feel if you called their instrument an ukulele?

[–] slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Differently, because that's a poor analogy. Trumpets are horns, guitars are stringed instruments. Now, if they called their trumpet a kazoo, it'd be time to throw down.

[–] swab148@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Davie504 calls all instruments basses

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

A ukulele is just a soprano bass

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Is it a tiny guitar?