Kuhlohorn

The Kuhlohorn was a type of oval flugelhorn developed in the late 19th century by the German maker Ernst David (1864-1918) in collaboration with Johannes Kuhlo (1856-1941) for the German Protestant church choir ensembles (posaunenchöre). This particular example was captured during the First World War (1914-1918), and exhibits a dark-shellacked surface, which was a typical camouflage technique applied to glittering objects. Technically, it is a German style flugelhorn made of brass with nickel-silver trimmings, with three rotary valves that would have probably had clock-spring mechanisms and mechanical linkages, now missing. It has a straight tuning bit. Nominal pitch: B-flat.