WHAT TO BLOW, AXD HOW TO BLOW FT. 3 



was really the recognised signal Horn used 

 by all the guards on the fast Coaches which 

 carried the mails fifty 3'ears ago. Hence the 

 name " Post-horn." 



A Coach-horn should alvva\'s be straight 

 and made of copper, with German-silver or 

 real silver mouth-piece and mountings, and 

 the bell should be funnel-shaped, and not 

 curved outwards like an ordinary trumpet- 

 bell. 





horn 



Although a strictly legitimate Coach- 

 should be made in one entire piece of 

 metal, still there has recently been 

 introduced a " Telescope " Coach- 

 horn, made with a joint ferrule in the 

 middle, which allows the top half to 

 slide inside the lower portion of the 

 Horn, without actually falling out — 

 something after the style of the port- 

 able metal drinking cups. From 

 actual experience, I can safely say 

 that the tone and ease in blowing are 

 not in thf least affected by this inno- 

 vation — which, indeed, I consider an 

 improvement — for Coach-horns when 

 thus " telescoped " are not nearly so 

 liable to get bent or injured, and are 

 more easily packed and carried about. 



X Coach-horn ought really not to exceed thirty- 

 six inches in length, or else the peculiar ring or 

 note (musicians would call it the timbre) of the true 



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