• @[email protected]
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    442 days ago

    It’s pretty common to call all wind instruments horns in a band context, it is a trumpet but most musicians aren’t going to be mad at calling it a horn. Still a bad pick up line

    • @MrQuallzin
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      342 days ago

      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
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        392 days ago

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

        • @Malpraxion
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          221 hours ago

          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.

          • Executive Chimp
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            220 hours ago

            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.

      • @RampantParanoia2365
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        121 hours ago

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

      • @TheDoozer
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        132 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 day ago

        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.

      • @Snapz
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        11 day ago

        Absolutely no offense intended… But you sound like an asshole