If you ask someone to think of an instrument, chances the French Horn not the first instrument you think of. However, it is a very interesting and unique looking instrument. It brings a mysterious sound quality. Can project a soft and moderate sound for any orchestra, music band, concert band or even a group of metals.
In fact, it is interesting to observe the historical basis of the French Horn. Looking back at their birth and development, you can discover how they gained their unique voices and characteristics. This also explains why even today they are not the most popular instruments in any music group.
The earliest form of French Horn is a loudspeaker. It makes them hollow branches or crutches. Players sing, speak, or make sounds to make harsh sounds to scare the devil. The loudspeaker evolved into the first horn, producing only one or two notes and producing a frightening sound. They use these trumpets in circumcision, funerals, and rituals at sunset. It was not until the Renaissance around 1550 that musical instrument looked more like they developed the French horn. This is a closed spiral horn built in Central Europe. About a hundred years later, the father of the French Horn. Made into the form of a thin tapered tube with two or more circular coils.
There's no evidence that horns used for a musical with other instruments before the 18th century. Used only for hunting in France, Germany, and Italy. They introduced to Germany by Graf Franz Anton von Sporck in 1681. Included in the German Orchestra in 1705, giving them a place in the music industry. However, in England, they used in the form of an entertaining duo in the garden or along the river. Rather than gaining the prestigious right to enter the orchestra. France continued to limit its use to hunting until 1735.
To play the French trumpet in the early 1700s, musicians would ignite the bell-like a trumpet. The length of the tube varies depending on the desired tone, so it requires a separate horn for each key change. They solved this problem by a curvature system developed in 1715. Which comprises several lengths of pipe rings that mounted at the end of the nozzle receiver. It allows players to use any key.
When Anton Joseph Hampel from Germany tested several minutes of silence in 1750, an important technology became a reality. Found he could lower the pitch by placing more cotton pads or hands on the bell which called “stopping.” This manual horn technology requires that the horn placed and has been used to this day. Hampel then redesigned it so that the thief was in the center of the hoop, not near the mouthpiece. But just like the unpleasant sound of the original horn. There are still differences between the pitch and the notes that open and stop.
Two German musicians invented this valve in 1815, the best innovation of a French horn. Since the lowered spring valve lowers the tone, the thief no longer needs to replaced. The last famous invention of the French horn was in 1899 when F / Bb Double French horn was first sold.
After more than a hundred years, it needs no major changes or additions. Materials may vary, but still, use spring valves and manual horn technology. To achieve the perfect soft voice coil and maintain the natural roughness of the tones. French Horn continues to maintain its musical status around the world.
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