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    The Hunting Horn - What to Blow and How to Blow it
    The Hunting Horn - What to Blow and How to Blow it
    The Hunting Horn - What to Blow and How to Blow it
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    The Hunting Horn - What to Blow and How to Blow it

    By L. C. R. Cameron

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    Originally published in 1910, this illustrated booklet gives detailed instruction on the art of blowing the horn with notes on its history and the meaning of each evocative call. This unusual handbook provides an in-depth guide to the traditional hunting horn, its history and usage. Illustrated with musical scores and diagrams, it would make an interesting addition to the library of the hunting enthusiast or musical historian. Many early books are becoming extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing this classic text, which has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience, in a high quality and affordable edition. It features a specially written concise biography and reproductions of the artwork from the original text.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473381797
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      The Hunting Horn - What to Blow and How to Blow it - L. C. R. Cameron

      WHAT TO BLOW

      and

      HOW TO BLOW IT

      I.

      THERE can be little doubt that one of the chief charms of the hunting-field, next after the actual cry of hounds, and possibly of the bright effect lent to the landscape by pink coats in winter, or by the blue and scarlet uniforms of the otter-hunter during the summer months, has ever been the inspiriting sound of the Horn, as its notes are borne on the breeze from the depths of some covert, echoed over the uplands as the chase goes gallantly forward, or come floating across the water of river or of lake.

      And yet how few among modern Masters and huntsmen of hounds do anything save, as Colonel Anstruther-Thomson complained, blow the same monotonous note on the Horn all day long without variation or meaning. Many men who can blow a Horn well enough, so far as getting a clear and sustained note from the tube at the proper moment without difficulty is concerned, have never learned so to vary the notes they employ as to convey a separate meaning by each of their calls, that shall be distinguishable to the ears of hounds and members of the field alike.

      The reason for this deplorable state

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