How I love languages! When I was a kid it was always called "french horn", (I remember the clipped tones of that chap on the BBC record who nearly put me off music for life) Then it changed to just horn (unless you were talking to the general public). But I never could understand why Americans always called any wind instrument "horn" (nor why you call a wind quintet a "woodwind quintet", even though only a quartet of the five are woodwind). Now, let's not get into a row about crotchets and minims! :-) Cheers, Lawrence (who, as a student of old english is still mourning the passing of words like forþferde and hwaet) lawrenceyates.co.uk
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