post-horn

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

  The Huffington Post: Rodney Punt: Schubert's Winterreise from Le Salon de Musiques

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Lang/LPO/Jurowski

• “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.”

  Fictionaut: Final Resting Place of The Pen

• “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"

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “As I rounded the corner, Mr. Fett hailed me with a shout and a vocal imitation of a post-horn.”

  Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756

• “Formerly their yards resounded with the strains of the merry post-horn, and carriers 'carts were as plentiful as omnibuses now are.”

  Vanishing England

• “The post-horn tooted merrily, dogs barked, and stableboys raised a good-by cheer!”

  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

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