GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

INVENTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
who invented the french horn
A
french people
B
Heinrich
C
a bicycle
D
your brother
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The person who invented the French Horn as it’s known today is actually a German horn player named Heinrich Stolzel. Stolzel developed a horn with two valves in 1814 to eliminate the extra slides that older horns required.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although the horn is an ancient instrument, the French horn wasn’t introduced until the seventeenth century. It made its first known debut in the comedy-ballet La Princesse d’Elide in Paris in 1664.

Detailed explanation-3: -horn, also called French horn, French cor d’harmonie, German Waldhorn, the orchestral and military brass instrument derived from the trompe (or cor) de chasse, a large circular hunting horn that appeared in France about 1650 and soon began to be used orchestrally.

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