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It's pretty common to call all wind instruments horns in a band context, it is a trumpet but most musicians aren't going to be mad at calling it a horn. Still a bad pick up line
Trumpeter here, I'd be insulted if I was called a horn. Might be regional, but that's not common here. If we're speaking about horns, it's only French horns
Another trumpeter here. If it was a wind instrument that didn't have a reed it was called a horn.
The piccolo flute is a horn?
Isn't brass more commonly used?
"Brass" "woodwind" and "Percussion" were the clinical anatomy textbook words and "horn" "wind" and "drum" were the casual everyday words.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_section
Trumpets belong in a horn section
Trumpets are stored in the horns
Doesn't look like that article says anything about trumpets to me. It does link to this article about horns, though: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_(instrument)
That one says:
Which seems to specifically exclude trumpets from horns.
Also the popular music section includes two photos with people playing trumpet and lists a bunch of horn sections, most of which contain trumpets.
Enh, in my experience "horn" refers to a French horn, but "horns" refers to all brass (separate from woodwinds, percussion, etc).
But yeah, if somebody referred to a horn, I'd assume they meant French horn.
In my experience its very common, just to give a counterpoint. "Bring in the horns" to denote a trumpet heavy section, or just referring to the brass section as "the horn section". 8dk might just be reguonal i guess but its colloquial.
Can agree. Where I live horn only refers to Alto Horns. Trumpets are something different.
Well, yeah...you play the horn, you aren't a horn yourself. Horns don't even have thumbs.
Absolutely no offense intended... But you sound like an asshole
How do you think a guitarist would feel if you called their instrument an ukulele?
Differently, because that's a poor analogy. Trumpets are horns, guitars are stringed instruments. Now, if they called their trumpet a kazoo, it'd be time to throw down.
Is it a tiny guitar?
Davie504 calls all instruments basses
A ukulele is just a soprano bass