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Orchestral hand horn

Technical description: 2½ coils excluding crooks; angle between axis of mouthpipe / crook receiver and axis of bell 142°; left-handed; brass; bell painted dark brown inside. Single-seamed bell with garland, width 36. Coils lapped with red flannel strip. One master crook and 4 couplers (all brass, single-coil except (3296e) which is 2-coil). Repair History: The red flannel lapping not original.

  • Date:
    Circa 1760
  • Maker:
    Hofmaster, John Christopher
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    London/England
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22-4
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22-4
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:498; corpus diameter 290; bell diameter 234.