Compare for yourself. Here's what the finale of Brahms' Horn Trio sounds like on the natural (valveless) horn. John Zirbel, principal horn player for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, recently ...

Conductors and fellow musicians never seem to mind how loudly you can blow the horn, but they really, really care about how softly you can play; in fact, your career depends on it. As the natural ...

"First, we engineer yeast cells to produce the same keratins found in rhino horn. These keratins are then amalgamated with the other natural components of rhino horn, such as trace elements and ...

(Pembient’s version may not be exactly genetically identical to natural horn.) “Plastic nylon never replaced cotton in the world,” said Bonacicguy, in essence rebuking Markus's Gore-Tex ...

Scientists have developed a fake rhino horn using horsehair, in a bid to create “credible fakes” to flood the market and reduce demand for the material. Researchers from the University of ...

It was left to one of Mozart’s pupils, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, to complete the last movement. All four concertos were composed for the natural horn, as the modern valved horn hadn’t yet been developed.