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Points: 20250 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 27 2023 at 12:53
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Perhaps the italian prog band   called A Piedi Nudi . They recorded a couple (?) of CDS in the early nineties ,
I remember they use "uncommon" woodwind instruments
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Holger Czukay comes to mind, at least on the albums On The Way To The Peak Of Normal and Moving Pictures, and since he plays it himself, he might have used it on other albums too, but I didn't check.
And if I remember well, Egg used French horn...

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Weirdly specific request perhaps, but I adore the sound of the French horn and would love to hear it more often in prominent places in a rock context. The only rock albums I can think of at the moment where this instrument takes a central place along with the rest of the band and actually gets to play a solo or two (instead of being in a background role or just part of an orchestra) are the debut albums by Electric Light Orchestra and Maxophone, but given the wide instrumental variety found within progressive rock I have no doubt that there are more examples.
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