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Taxi Horns

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Has 'An American In Paris' Been Honking Up The Wrong Key?

NPR Staff

The composition is so popular that old-timey taxi horns Gershwin called for are rented by orchestras all over the country. But a musicologist says they've been using the wrong ones.