There are four main brass instruments that one would usually find in the orchestra - trumpets (high notes), trombones (mid-low notes), tubas (very low notes), and french horns (mid notes).
Like any instrument, the horn has a distinctive sound set apart from other brass instruments, but this one has a tone even more set apart from it's four main brethren. Its shape is also different from the trumpet and trombone, but still somewhat similar to one, the tuba, in that it has a circular shape.
As far as I know, it seems to fill out the middle note range, alongside the trombone, which still goes a bit lower. It is my personal favorite of the brass family of instruments.
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