In the first poem is given a list of these signs with the names by
which they were known in venery.
In the 16th century in England the hunting-horn sometimes had a spiral
turn in the centre, half-way between mouthpiece and bell end; the
extra length was apparently added solely in order to lower the pitch,
the higher harmonics not being used for the hunting calls. In George
Turbevile's _Noble Arte of Venerie_ (1576, facsimile reprint, Oxford,
1908) the "measures of blowing according to the order which is
observed at these dayes in this Realme of Englande" are given for the
horn in D. One of these, given in fig. 3, is the English 16th-century
hunting call, corresponding to the 14th-century French _Cornure de
chasse de veue_ given above.
[Illustration: From Turbevile's _Noble Art of Venerie_ (1576), by
permission of the Clarendon Press.