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French horn.

Technical description: Brass with german silver ferrule, stay plates, and valve parts; French bell rim; single large gusset in bell. The three valves in triangular (Kreuzventilen) formation with the four ports of each valve at 90°. Brass ring for L0 and german silver hook for L5. With fitting for music-card holder.; Type or system: 3 valves. Valve type: 3 rotary valves, drum springs with ratchet-and-paul tension adjustment; cork buffers mounted on valve caps.

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  • Inscriptions:Applied german silver shaped plaque on bell with crown / six-pointed star / F. Schediwy*e / INSTRUMENTEN-FABRIK / LUDWIGSBURG / KGL. HOFLIEFERANT / GENERAL-VERTRETER / FORSTER & / GROSSHEIM / BERLIN" / star; stamped on undersides of the three connecting arms "34".
  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.232.12-4 Valve horns with narrow bore, with long air column (more than 2 m) and with crooks
  • Repository:Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
  • Measurements:Overall size: from plane of bell to far coil 415; bell 301.; Sounding length: ; Bore: body minimum at 25mm from crook receiver; 11.0; valve cluster from 472mm to 572mm from mouthpiece receiver, v.t.s. bore (3,2,1) 11.2. main tuning-slide from 874mm to 1244mm from crook receiver, m.t.s bore 11.2; at 71.5mm from bell end, 115.Bell cutoff |500|Hz.Bell wall angle at D=100mm, 24.3°.Dia of mouthpiece receiver: crook receiver 13.1 - 12.25.