Horn
Horn most often refers to:
- Horn (acoustic), a conical or bell shaped aperture used to guide sound
- Horn (instrument), collective name for tube-shaped wind musical instruments
- Horn (anatomy), a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals, either the "true" horn, or other horn-like growths
- Horn, a colloquial reference to keratin, the substance that is the main component of the tissue that sheaths the bony core of horns and hoofs of various animals
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Horn may also refer to:
Musical Instruments
Brass Instruments
- French horn (often simply called a horn), a family of brass instruemnts
- German horn, the most common type of french horn
- Vienna horn, a type of horn used particularly in Vienna, Austria
- Natural horn, the predecessor to the modern french horn
- Post horn, a natural horn with a cupped mouthpiece
- Saxhorn, a family of brass instruments with conical bores
- Flugelhorn, a conical brass instrument similar to a trumpet or cornet
- Tenor Horn (sometimes known as an alto horn), a conical brass instrument usually in the key of E-flat
- Baritone Horn (often simply called a baritone) a conical brass instrument similar to a Euphonium
- Alphorn (or Alpine horn), a long wooden natural horn
Woodwind Instruments
- Basset Horn, a member of the Clarinet family
- Cor anglais (or English horn), a member of the Oboe family
Personal name
- Horn (surname)
- Freyja, also known as Hörn, a Norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war and death
Places
- Cape Horn, the southernmost point of South America
- Horn of Africa, a peninsula in northeast Africa
- Horn (district), a district of the state of Lower Austria in Austria
- Horn, Austria, a small town, capital of the Horn District
- Horn, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
- Horn, Hamburg, a quarter in the borough Hamburg-Mitte, in the eastern part of Hamburg, Germany
- Horn (Netherlands), a town in the Dutch province of Limburg, and a separate municipality until 1991
- Horn, Oppland, a ferry docking point on the east side of Randsfjorden, a lake in Norway
- Horn, Rutland, a civil parish in the East Midlands of England
- Horn, Sweden, a locality
- Horn, Switzerland, a municipality in the district in the canton of Thurgau
- Horn, Nebraska, a community in the United States
- Horn Island, Queensland, one of the Torres Strait Islands
- Horn River, Northwest Territories, Canada
- Horn (Schwarzbach), a river in eastern France and southwestern Germany
- The Horn (Mount Buffalo), a peak in Victoria, Australia
- The Horn (New Hampshire), a peak in the northeastern United States
Music
- Horn (album), an album by Pharaoh Overlord
- Horn (Apink album), 2022
- "The Horn", a song from the album Love Kraft by Super Furry Animals
- "The Horn", from the album Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam, a comedy track by Derek and Clive
Slang
- Telephone, also known as "the horn"
- Two-way radio, also known as "the horn"
Other uses
- Horn (Chinese constellation), part of the European constellation Virgo
- Horn (diacritic), a diacritic mark used to indicate that a normally rounded vowel such as o or u is to be pronounced unrounded
- Horn Cable Television, a television channel in Somalia
- The knob-like appendage attached to the pommel of a saddle
- Horn antenna, a type of antenna shaped like a horn and also called "horn"
- Glacial horn, a pyramid-shaped peak sculpted by glacial erosion
- Control horn, a device that helps control the control surfaces of an aircraft
- Horn (video game), a mobile game
See also
Search for "horn" on Wikipedia.
- All pages with titles containing horn
- Horned God
- Horns (disambiguation)
- Horne (disambiguation)
- Hoorn (disambiguation)
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