Single horn

This instrument was captured from the Germans in Crete, 1941. It is a single horn made of silver plated brass, with a circular body arrangement and wide flared bell. It has four rotary valves with nickel-silver mechanical linkage and cork bumpers. The fourth valve, operated by the thumb key, is used to change the pitch of the instrument. There is one pulling ring on the second valve tuning slide. Some of the braces and ferrules are made of nickel-silver. The bell brace has a heart-shaped plate. Nominal pitch: F or B-flat.