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...horns taken by the players to Laarne are the direct descendants of the circular trompe de chasse developed in France toward the middle of the 17th century. The present-day horn is a 4.54 meter-long conical brass tube wound three times around and flaring from the mouthpiece to a fat bell. Pitched to the key of C, the horn sounds a plaintive, husky call which on good days may ride the wind for a mile or more...
According to legend, King Charles IX of France was brought to his deathbed by his passion for sounding lung-lacerating halloos on the hunting horn. True or not, the fine art of horn blowing was for generations a popular musical diversion of Europe's landed aristocracy and an accepted measure of the virility of its practitioners (Louis XIII boasted he could blow a whole day without weakening). Although blue-blooded huntsmen have long lamented the passing of the horn's heartier days, few have addressed themselves to the problem with the energy of Belgium's 59-year...
Manjiro worked as a farm hand, went whaling again, and in 1849 worked his way around the Horn to California, where he prospected for gold. He did not strike it rich, but he saved enough to realize his aim of getting back to Japan and his mother. Foreign ships were not permitted to enter Japanese harbors, but a U.S. captain agreed to drop Manjiro and two of his friends in a small boat which Manjiro had bought and taken aboard. Seventeen days out of Hawaii, the Japanese went over the side, four miles off Ryukyu. Manjiro was home...
...grand piano, his large head listing heavily to port, his horn rims and high forehead giving him a scholarly appearance. Before him stood four blowers on trumpet, trombone and saxophones, men whose personal styles seemed almost perfectly adapted to the Gulda idiom. During the evening's five half-hour sets they played a round dozen of Gulda's own compositions-pretty, slightly sentimental ditties with such names as Air from Other Planets, Dodo, Scruby, New Shoes-plus his arrangements of other men's tunes. Whatever the music, it had one mark of good jazz: it stimulated...
...Hole Truth. In Long Beach, Calif., arrested after he made off with a truckload of doughnuts, Sailor Robert Horn-stead, 22, told cops: "I don't know why I did it; I don't even like doughnuts...