Horn (instrument) a mixture of the two, is called a horn section in these contexts. Variations include: As the name indicates, people originally used to blow on the actual horns of animals before starting to emulate them in metal or other materials. This original usage survives in the shofar (), a ram's horn, which plays an important role in Jewish religious rituals. The genus of animal-horn instruments to which the shofar belongs is called ("keren") in Hebrew, "qarnu" in Akkadian, and ("keras") in Greek. The "olifant" or "oliphant" (an abbreviation of the French "cor d'olifant"/"oliphant", "elephant horn") was the name applied in
Balaban (instrument) Balaban (instrument) Balaban, or balaman () is cylindrical-bore, double-reed wind instrument about long with eight finger holes and one thumb hole. Balaban, one of the ancient wind instruments, is played in all corners of Azerbaijan. This instrument is played in Iranian Azerbaijan and in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The origins of this instrument come from the Armenian duduk. Balaban can be made of mulberry or other harder woods, such as walnut.The bore through the instrument is about in diameter. The double reed is made out of a single tube of cane about six cm long and pressed flat at one