In american jazz and popular music, and thence spread to the western world at large, any instrument is a "horn". I have even heard violinists refer to their instrument as "horn" when they were playing jazz. Another increasingly heard term is "axe", originaly used only by guitar players and now even used by the esteemed moderator of the other list to describe his horn. Paxmaha
Benno Heinemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That's only in american English the case. I don't know what "common english" should mean. To a speaker of british English ( or one like me who tries) or even an Australian I think, there could be not much chance of thinking Horn means Trumpet or Saxophone. Greater of the danger in England of thinking it is an E-flat tenor horn as Mr Kampen recently pointed out. Benno On Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 06:36 PM, Herbert Foster wrote: > From: Herbert Foster > Date: Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:36:37 PM Europe/Berlin > To: The Horn List > Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Cor Anglais & French Horn > Reply-To: The Horn List > > Because at least in common English "horn" is any wind instrument, in > spite of > our conceit about our horn being the only horn. > _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/paxmaha%40yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
