Bukkehorn

The Bukkehorn is a member of the brass (Hornbostel–Sachs 423.1). Learn how it makes its sound and explore related instruments.

How the Bukkehorn makes its sound

In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which classifies instruments by how they produce sound, the Bukkehorn belongs to the brass (lip-vibrated aerophones): the player's buzzing lips set the air column vibrating – trumpets, horns, trombones, tubas and the didgeridoo.

More broadly it is one of the aerophones (wind instruments), where sound comes from vibrating air.

Its timbre – the colour that lets you tell it apart from other instruments playing the same note – comes from the mix of overtones its body and resonator emphasise.

From Wikipedia

A bukkehorn (Norwegian) or bockhorn (Swedish), also called a "billy goat horn" in English, is an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument made from the horn of a goat or a ram. The horn is usually harvested 5 to 7 years before the instrument is crafted. It was traditionally used by shepherds and milkmaids on summer dairy farms in the mountains, as a signal instrument or to scare off predators. It is most commonly played with a brass-type embouchure, buzzing the lips against the mouthpiece, but versions with a single reed similar to that of a clarinet also exist.