[G. waldhorn, forest or hunting horn, French horn.] (See quot.)
1852. Seidel, Organ, 110. Wald horn.
1889. Grove, Dict. Mus., IV. 375. Waldhorn (that is, Forest horn), Corno di caccia. The old ‘French horn,’ without valves, for which Beethoven wrote. The valve horn … is fast superseding it.
