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Orchestral hand horn
Technical description: 2½ coils excluding crooks; angle between axis of mouthpipe / crook receiver and axis of bell 133°; left-handed; yellow brass. Metal construction: ovelapping joint between proximal and bell segments; bell longitudinally seamed with single gusset; plain garland, width 30. Terminally crooked; crook receiver reinforced with ferrule and flat stay. With 1-coil master crook (2888a) for high C, 3-coil master crook (2888b) for G, and 3-coil coupler (2888c) serving for D with master crook (2888b).
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Late 18th Century - Maker:
Unknown - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Probably England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22-4
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22-4
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:perpendicular to bell 408; corpus diameter 285; bell diameter 242.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18049