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Afiscorn (Catalan pronunciation:[fisˈkɔɾn]) is a brass instrument. It is a bassflugelhorn in the key of C. In thecobla, it has the deepest sound among the brass instruments.^[1]

Originally played inpolka bands throughoutGermany and the formerCzechoslovakia, as well as inmilitary bands inItaly, the instrument has migrated to find its home today inCatalonia. Favored over other valved low brass for its haunting mellow tone and bell front projection, the fiscorn quickly became an essential instrument of thecobla band, along with thetenora,tible andflabiol. While the instrument has been dropped from most music ensembles for intonational concerns, the instrument's powerful baritone voice has no counterpart, (save perhaps the piston-valvedmarching baritone), in the organology. The forward-projected sound makes a pair of fiscorns the most suitable two instruments to join the shrillCatalan shawms (tenoras and tibles) and flabiol pipe, together withtrumpets andtrombone in the outdoor town-square setting where the cobla bands play forsardana dancers.

While the instrument is often played by trombonists, its conical nature is easily mastered by tuba or euphonium players. Several instrument manufacturers have attempted to solve the intonational discrepancies of the instrument in recent years, with a varied success. The instrument is taught throughout Catalonia, most notably in the traditional music departments of theCatalonia College of Music (ESMUC) in Barcelona and at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional (CRR) inPerpignan, France.

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