posthorn
posthorn. Brass instr. without valves or keys which can produce only the notes of one harmonic series. Made straight, oblong-coiled, or circular-coiled, and once used by postillions for signalling. Mozart's Serenade No.9 in D (K320, 1779) is nicknamed Posthorn.
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