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Orchestral horn

Technical description: Terminally crooked. This is a convertible hand and valve horn, with valve assembly removable for replacement by plain slide. Metal construction: yellow brass; angle between axis of mouthpipe / crook receiver and axis of bell 130°; seamed throughout, gusseted bell, garland width 29. With shank for B♭ alto; crooks for A, A♭, G, F, E, E♭, D; couplers for D♭ (with D crook) and B♭ basso (with C crook); two tuning bits. Valve type: 2 rotary valves, lever operated, drum springs on tuning-slide. First valve descending, semitone, changeable to ascending, semitone. Second valve descending, tone. Repair History: Valves possibly added c1830, otherwise whole instrument dates from this time.

  • Measurements:corpus diameter 315; bell diameter 288.