flugelhorn

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

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.

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

bugle cornet horn saxhorn

flugelhornist flumpet

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