jiao seko:00440 (horn)

[jarmosaarikko]

http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:au:seko:00440 jiao | chiao, jiăo

• Kiinalainen sarvisoitin - "A Chinese horn instrument".

This is a general word for "horn" in Chinese.

• I cannot find examples of a natural horn from China in Wikipedia nor elsewhere.
• Any references for this?

[jarmosaarikko]

David Bagnani in Facebook writes:

In Asia, traditional horns have been used for millennia and come in several forms. Generic terms: ● Jiao (角, literally "horn") or dajiao - (大角, literally "large horn") - the earliest Chinese term to describe such instruments, referred originally to a trumpet made from an animal horn (shoujiao, 兽角), which was used in military contexts since the Eastern Han Dynasty; eventually the term also came to be used as a generic term for horns made from other materials such as wood, bamboo, leather, seashell, copper, or brass... --- He goes on listing dozens of horn names.

"shoujiao"

• I would like to suggest changing the preferred label of seko:00440 to "shoujiao" as the broader concept is the animal horn.