Word: hornings
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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...
Waltzes & Polkas. The original horn fanfares were used to signal the different stages of the hunt to riders in the field, e.g., stag at bay, hounds hunt a game unknown, withdrawal from the field. Under Louis XV horn players became more ceremonious, began to specialize in elaborate fanfares signaling such things as the "Salute to the Queen" and the appearance of "The Ladies' Carriage." The ladies were provided with their own little horns with which to answer the bucks in the field. By the 18th century horn buffs were experimenting with waltzes, mazurkas and polkas. In some...
Although the hunting horn has long since disappeared from the symphony orchestra (where the French horn does the horn calls, e.g., Wagner, Bach and Beethoven), its music is still kept alive by dedicated amateur groups such as the Parisian Le Cercle Dampierre et Bien Allé,* which turned up at Laarne last week. For the 200-odd such groups scattered throughout Europe, three French manufacturers produce some 400 hunting horns a year at about $35 apiece...
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...