In French Horn how do you notate whether or not to put the hand in the bell?

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Is there a word for putting your hand in the bell or taking your hand out of the bell, e.g. "con sordino"/"senza sordino" is for mute but I need to know the word for hand in bell, thanks.
 
do you mean "stopped" like all the way in the bell, closing the horn?

you use a heavy + symbol over the note, and then a heavy O symbol over another note to undo it for unstopped (called "open").

you can also label it "stopped" and "open" especially to clarify if it stays stopped for several measures.
 
In proper playing technique, the hand is ALWAYS in the bell. There's no special term for it, because the practice is already implied.
 
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