flugelhorn

flugelhorn

See also: flügelhorn and Flügelhorn

English

A flugelhorn

Alternative forms

• fluegelhorn
• flügelhorn

Etymology

Borrowed from German Flügelhorn, from Flügel (“wing, flank”) + horn.

Noun

flugelhorn (plural flugelhorns)

1. A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.
   • 1900, Daniel E. McCarthy, Manual of Instructions for Quartermasters Serving in the Field :

     A flugelhorn may be furnished in lieu of the Eb trumpet, a euphonium in lieu of one alto, one Eb alto saxophone, and one Eb baritone saxophone in lieu of two coronets...

Derived terms

• flugelhornist

Translations

brass instrument

Catalan: fiscorn (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 富魯格號／富鲁格号 (fùlǔgéháo) Czech: křídlovka (cs) f Dutch: bugel (nl) m Finnish: flyygelitorvi (fi), flygari (colloquial) French: bugle (fr) German: Flügelhorn (de) n Hungarian: szárnykürt (hu) Icelandic: flygilhorn n Italian: flicorno (it) m, bombardino (it) m Japanese: フリューゲルホルン (furyūgeruhorun) Norwegian: Bokmål: flygelhorn n Portuguese: flugelhorn m, fliscorne (pt) m Russian: флюгельго́рн (ru) m (fljugelʹgórn)

See also

• bugle
• cornet
• horn
• saxhorn

Further reading

• flugelhorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Portuguese

Noun

flugelhorn m (plural flugelhorns)

1. (music) flugelhorn (a brass instrument)

   Synonym: fliscorne