Pocket hunting horn, B-flat
Date1960 ca.
Place MadeMarkneukirchen, East Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEmbossed German-silver plaque at bell: B & S [surrounded by antlers on oak leaves]MarkingsStamped on receiver: [M]ADE IN GDR
DescriptionBrass; German-silver garland and ferrule; coiled six-times in two layers of three, and covered by green artificial leather binding; no tuning slide.
Clewing-Horn, named after its inventor Prof. Carl Clewing, who intended to create a very compact hunting horn that could be put in the pocket of a jacket. His design was modeled on a historic horn in the musical instrument collection in Berlin that does no longer exist. The first Clewing horns were built by Max Bernhardt Martin (†1938), while later instruments were manufactured by B & S (VEB Blechblas- und Signalinstrumenten-Fabrik) Markneukirchen, a firm founded in 1953 by amalgamation of the Deutsche Signalinstrumentenfabrik Max B. Martin in Markneukirchen, and the VEB Sächsische Musikinstrumentenfabrik, Ernst Heß successor, in Klingenthal.
DimensionsHeight: 133 mm
Tube length: 1310 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 9.2 mm, 9.0 mm
Bell diameter: 70 mm
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 210-11, 265.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07041
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