Fiscorn (Catalan pronunciation: [fisˈkɔrn]) is a Catalan instrument. While the term also designates the modern flugelhorn, the term today in Catalonia commonly refers to a conical bell forward rotary valved brass instrument (bass-flugelhorn) in C played in the cobla (Catalan wind orchestra) to accompany the sardana (Catalan folk dance).
Originally played in polka bands throughout Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, as well as in military bands...
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Fiscorn (Catalan pronunciation: [fisˈkɔrn]) is a Catalan instrument. While the term also designates the modern flugelhorn, the term today in Catalonia commonly refers to a conical bell forward rotary valved brass instrument (bass-flugelhorn) in C played in the cobla (Catalan wind orchestra) to accompany the sardana (Catalan folk dance).
Originally played in polka bands throughout Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, as well as in military bands in Italy, the instrument has migrated to find its home today in Catalonia. Favored over other valved low brass for its haunting mellow tone and bell front projection, the fiscorn quickly became an emblematic instrument of the cobla, along with the tenora and the tible. While the instrument has been dropped from most music ensembles for intonational concerns, the instrument's powerful baritone voice has no counterpart, (save perhaps the piston-valved marching baritone), in the organology. Instruments such as the British euphonium or the French...
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