post-horn

A horse's gallop and the post-horn announcements of arriving mail, anachronistic today, would have been commonplace sounds in this period.

Rodney Punt: Schubert's Winterreise from Le Salon de Musiques Rodney Punt 2011

A horse's gallop and the post-horn announcements of arriving mail, anachronistic today, would have been commonplace sounds in this period.

Rodney Punt: Schubert's Winterreise from Le Salon de Musiques Rodney Punt 2011

At the post office, with its slung post-horn sign, he filled the new envelope with all Caspar's documents and papers, carefully sealing it with parcel tape.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

There's a moment in the third movement of Mahler's gargantuan third symphony when the music – a rising chaos of shrill woodwind and rioting strings – is interrupted by a lonely, beguilingly simple call from an off-stage post-horn.

Lang/LPO/Jurowski 2010

Those in which the lower harmonics from the second to the sixth or eighth are employed, such as the bugle, post-horn, the cornet à pistons, the trombone.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

In the “Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (Rudolphe Erich Raspe), stories gathered from various sources, is found the story of sound being frozen for a time in a post-horn, which when thawed gave a variety of tunes.

Quotations Plutarch. A.D. 46?-A.D. c. 120. 1919

In the “Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (Rudolphe Erich Raspe), stories gathered from various sources, is found the story of sound being frozen for a time in a post-horn, which when thawed gave a variety of tunes.

Quotations 1919

In the “Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (Rudolphe Erich Raspe), stories gathered from various sources, is found the story of sound being frozen for a time in a post-horn, which when thawed gave a variety of tunes.

Quotations Plutarch. A.D. 46?-A.D. c. 120. 1919

He awoke to the ringing clang of the post-horn, and lo! he was driving along in a beautiful coach, and the forest lay far behind him.

Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted Cicely Hauff McDonnell 1903

One day they stopped when they heard the post-horn blowing at the gate; and both of them became very much excited when George's father came out himself with a big official envelope marked 'On His Majesty's Service' and addressed to 'James Wolfe, Esquire.'

The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolf William Charles Henry Wood 1905