Crossword-Solution: SAXHORN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Saxhorn | n. | A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SAXHORN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BARYTONE relative | 1 answer |
| Bass tuba. | 1 answer |
| Tuba kin | 1 answer |
| Tuba relative | 1 answer |
| Althorn. | 2 answers |
| Cornet kin | 2 answers |
| Brass-wind instrument. | 3 answers |
| Tuba | 6 answers |
| BRASS instrument | 11 answers |
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Sentences with SAXHORN (5)
Sousa's band is usually made up in somewhat the following manner: 4 flutes and piccolos, 12 B[flat] clarinets, 1 E[flat] clarinet, 1 alto clarinet, 1 bass clarinet, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 sarrusophones, 4 saxophones, 4 cornets, 2 trumpets, 1 soprano saxhorn (fluegelhorn), 4 French horns, 4 trombones, 2 contra-bass tubas, 4 tubas, 1 snare drum, 1 bass drum, 2 kettle drums, cymbals, triangle, bells, castanets, xylophone, etc.
The _bass tuba_ is a member of the saxhorn family[42] and supplies the lowest part of the brass choir, as the double-bass does in the string choir.
Major Lawson was a fine cornet player, and finding the scale of the service bugle too restricted he obtained permission to add to it a valve attachment, which made the bugle a chromatic instrument like the cornet, in fact practically a saxhorn.
CHAPTER XVIII THE LACROSSE MATCH What's come of old Bill Lindsay and the Saxhorn fellers, say? I want to hear the old band play.
Etym: [Alt + horn.] (Mus.) Defn: An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1946–2004).