french horn once banned in some musical cl aird the french horn is one or of the valuable and wind n in stran in the orchestra metti it lins has a slender I 1 leal ical tube wound round in ehll itself and consists of four grinj I 1 firl parts the boily body the crooks the thenon milk piece and the file slides mouth 1110 boy body is 3 t the m main n tube ube ibe crooks file ant cha nal e abit e a tubes of varying length vahl which eh the pitch and key of the instrument the mouthpiece Is different from er wind Int instruments in that it la Is f nel and not cup shaped ruu I 1 the slides are pairs of sliding M by means of which the instrument tuba ina n the be tuned the horn Is also equipped with K valves to be operated by the pla pl in producing the various tones la III scale ma the tone of the horn is 19 men mell rich and sonorous rind and is distl 3 at the same time by a certain humal ann quality which Is vastly different NJ all the other members of section the ibe braa br I 1 i the origin or of the horn must b i sought in prehistoric times when ben a zan an authority in the washington Wash inKton par pi by breaking off the tip of a short i I 1 mal horn one or at best two no were obtained this was undoubtedly undoubted the origin of the horn that was wn ds later and used in the salu B I 1 phony orchestra it seems strange te I 1 think the horn was opposed at agrati hi I 1 for now it Is heard in nearly every evi i orchestral piece yet when it first I 1 dered the orchestra it mas considered conalie con slie coarse and unfit to mingle with more delicate violins and oboes