The use of the horn is a strong tradition in french venerie (hunting with dogs).
Each animal has his own hunting fanfare, each hunting action has his own hunting fanfare. Some great places, villages, forests have their fanfare, some men or women have a fanfare.
A good "sonneur" is able to know few hundred of fanfares. They can tell a story or describe the hunt with the succession of fanfares.
Examples : débuché (the animal leaves forest for field), rembuché (it leaves field for forest), passer l'eau en barque (you have to take a boat to cross a river or lake), l'hallali sur pieds (the en