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Originally Posted by The Mouth of Sauron
I think 2 distinct horns were required to provide 2 distinct "calls to arms".
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I can play a modern military-style bugle and I'm familiar with more than a couple of dozen different signal calls.
A bugle can produce five notes and most signal calls and marching tunes use only four. It's amazing what you can do with just four notes; listen to some modern pop songs.
The Horn of Rohan, if my memory serve me right, was described as small, perhaps something like a modern fox-hunting horn. It would have produced only three notes but that's enough for many different signals. When I play my version of the Buckland alarm call, I use only two notes.
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