Alphorn, F
Maker
Josef Stocker
Date1993
Place MadeKriens, Canton Luzern, Switzerland, Europe
Serial No.3004
SignedStamped on bell and bell rest with branding: SWISS MADE / ALPHORN / LUZERN / stockerMarkingsStamped on foot and written inside the first and second tube segments in pencil: 3004
DescriptionConifer tubing (made in two halves), beech bell (laminated and sawn), rattan cover; demountable into three sections with brass sleeve and tenon at the joins.
Josef Stocker (b. 1941) in Kriens, Luzern, produces alphorns in fairly large quantities. He employs the modern technique of artificially sawn bells, formed after templates, rather than using the traditional naturally grown curved tree trunk. In Switzerland the most common alphorn pitch is G-flat. However, for ensemble playing with organ, orchestra or other brass instruments, the F alphorn is preferred.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 3640 mm
Tube length: 3870 mm
Bore diameter: 16-27.5 mm (first segment), 27.5-47.2 mm (second segment), 47.5 mm (initial, third segment)
Bell diameter: 170 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1993 from Jim Ghighi, Greenville, South Carolina.
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. 28–30, 279.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07081
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