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Natural horn. Nominal pitch: 14-ft D.

Technical description: 3½ coils; brass; ligature tuning at mouthpipe. Metal construction: mouthpipe, 4 intermediate segments and bell, overlapping joints; wired bell rim, no garland.

  • Date:
    1923
  • Maker:
    Couesnon [Corporation]
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    Paris/France
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.121.22
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.121.22
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:506 perpendicular to bell; corpus diameter 410; bell diameter 289.