Horny again?

The great thing about being a musician, is that you can listen to what you want, even though others may question your sanity, exaltation and life style, you are left up the conclusion that they are just not up to your snuff, so may it be called of style for music. Sure I have classical, rock and roll, country, heavy metal, and others, but the one thing that I go back to is my horn music. Yes in American terms it is called French Horn. I believe that it is a Godly instrument; a man blows into it, and God only knows what comes out of it. Kidding aside, when in Revelations it talks about the sound of the trump, yes it could be interpreted as a trumpet being sounded. But as history shows the horn has been around a lot longer than most other instruments. Look at the olde English days. When they went out on a fox hunt, what did they have? Bugles, and horns. And the way they blew a certain melody the others on the hunt with the lead would know what was going on. Bugle calls are still being used today in the military, for waking up, raising the flag, meal times, beddy bye time. All came from the horn. And the horn was not all that it is now. It had the same shape as it does now, just no valves. The way you could get different notes other than the overtones that you could get naturally, they stuck a hand in and "Stopped" the sound. It would either raise or lower the pitch so that you could do an entire scale just with your hand. The hand just had to shift positions to "Stop" the sound and raise or lower the pitch. It really began to be popular and many composers used the technique to make some very beautiful music. There is a site that horn players can listen and print out music that professional horn players have memorised and use to audition with. www.hornexcerpts.org. I wish I could be half as good as these pros who have been, done and seen everything. They spend their whole life playing, researching, teaching, and enjoying the horn. I guess I am just so happy to be in with this crowd and get the same joy as they do. I wish I could be at their level, but I know I am not that dedicated enough to get there. But I do enjoy listening to a concert and picking out the horn sounds, and then follow it through the concert. It annoys the heck out of my wife cause I will sit there and direct to myself the music. As I heard one saying once, Horn is Life, the rest is just details. Maybe it is time to pick it up again and get my butt in gear and enjoy the talent I was given.