How was the sound for the Horn in Helms Deep created?

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I think the title says it all: How was the sound for the Horn, blown by Gimli, in Helms Deep created in the film The Two Towers?

                
            
If they created a big horn as a basis of the sound, I'd love to get a picture of it.
The only answer I could find is from Quora and it more refers to how it could've been done.

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According to Mike Hopkins, Sound Designer for the film (in the 'Production Commentary' on the Extended Edition Bluray),  the horn sound was not from a single instrument, but rather a digital composition made from a combination of various sounds including a ship's horn.

Mike Hopkins: The horn was, we knew it was going to be something that has to really shake the theatre, and has to go on. So it was about coming up with a sound that has that kind of power and we ended up going with a combination of, well, it's a sound that's mostly based on a ship horn.

Under the circumstances, it seems unlikely that there was an actual horn, just a set of stock audio clips being manipulated on a mixing desk.

How was the sound for the Horn in Helms Deep created?

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