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fluegelhorn

fluegelhorn is the alternative spelling of flugelhorn.

Meaning of flugelhorn

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.
    • 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...1900, Daniel E. McCarthy, Manual of Instructions for Quartermasters Serving in the Field

Forms of fluegelhorn

pluralfluegelhorns

Questions about fluegelhorn

What is fluegelhorn the alternative spelling of?
Fluegelhorn is the alternative spelling of flugelhorn.

Words near fluegelhorn in the dictionary

  1. flue-faker
  2. flue-fakers
  3. Flueckiger
  4. flued
  5. Fluegel
  6. fluegelhorn
  7. fluegelhorns
  8. Fluegels
  9. Fluehr
  10. flueless
  11. fluelike

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