saxhorn

• WordNet 3.6
  • n saxhorn any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a bugle with valves
  • ***

• Interesting fact: The brass family of instruments include the trumpet, trombone, tuba, cornet, flügelhorn, French horn, saxhorn, and sousaphone. While they are usually made of brass today, in the past they were made of wood, horn, and glass.
• • n Saxhorn (Mus) A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Saxknown as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.
  • ***

• • n saxhorn A musical instrument of the trumpet class, invented by Adolphe Sax, a Frenchman, about 1840. It has a wide cupped mouthpiece and a long, large tube with from three to five valves. The details of construction are such that the tone is remarkably full and even, the compass very long, and the fingering consistent and simple. Six or more sizes or varieties are made, so as to form a complete series or family of similar tone and manipulation; they are named by their fundamental key or by their relative compass, as soprano, tenor, etc. The tenor saxhorn is also called alt-horn; the next larger, barytone; the next, euphonium; and the bass, bombardon or sax-tuba. These instruments are especially useful for military bands, but they have not been often introduced into the orchestra, because of the comparatively unsympathetic quality of the tone. Also saxcornet and saxotromba.
  • ***

• • n Saxhorn saks′horn a brass wind-instrument having a long winding tube with bell opening, invented by Antoine or Adolphe Sax, of Paris, about 1840.
  • ***

In literature:

In news: