flugelhorn

See also: flügelhorn and Flügelhorn

English

A flugelhorn

Alternative forms

• fluegelhorn
• flügelhorn

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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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^[1]:

     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
• flumpet

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, flygari (colloquial)
• French: bugle (fr)
• Galician: fliscorno (gl) m
• 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)
• Spanish: fiscorno m

See also

• bugle
• cornet
• horn
• saxhorn

Further reading

• flugelhorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Noun

flugelhorn m (plural flugelhorns)

1. (music) flugelhorn (a brass instrument)

   Synonym: fliscorne