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Orchestral hand horn

Technical description: 2½ coils excluding crooks; angle between axis of mouthpipe / crook receiver and axis of bell 127°; yellow brass. Metal construction: seamed tubing throughout; single seamed bell; transversely seamed garland, width 32; tubular sheet stays. Two tuning-slides, differing in air column length by 51mm. With terminal crooks (531a) 1-coil for B? alto, (531b) 1-coil for A, (531c) 1-coil for G, (531d) 2-coil for F, (531e) 2-coil for E, (531f) 2-coil for E?, (531g) 3-coil for D, (531h) 3-coil for C, which differs from the others in its mouthpiece ferrule and diamond-shaped plate, and coupler (531i) 1-coil for B? basso with crook (531h). Repair History: Small patch on bell taper. Crook (531h) a replacement supplied by Reginald Morley-Pegge.Technical description: 2½ coils excluding crooks; angle between axis of mouthpipe / crook receiver and axis of bell 127°; yellow brass. Metal construction: seamed tubing throughout; single seamed bell; transversely seamed garland, width 32; tubular sheet stays. Two tuning-slides, differing in air column length by 51mm. With terminal crooks (531a) 1-coil for B♭ alto, (531b) 1-coil for A, (531c) 1-coil for G, (531d) 2-coil for F, (531e) 2-coil for E, (531f) 2-coil for E♭, (531g) 3-coil for D, (531h) 3-coil for C, which differs from the others in its mouthpiece ferrule and diamond-shaped plate, and coupler (531i) 1-coil for B♭ basso with crook (531h). Repair History: Small patch on bell taper. Crook (531h) a replacement supplied by Reginald Morley-Pegge.

  • Date:
    Circa 1830
  • Maker:
    Kretzschmann, Charles [Person]
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    Strasbourg/France
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22-4
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22-4
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:corpus diameter 335; bell diameter 293.