Fox-hunting Horn, C
Maker
Adolphe Sax
Date1867
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.29490
SignedEngraved alongside instrument: No. 29490 / Ad„ Sax
Paris„ / Breveté„Stamped on bell: AIS
MarkingsNone
DescriptionBrass, one-piece wide-conical tube with sharply flaring bell, formed from a metal sheet with tab seam.
Wide funnel-shaped mouthpiece with flat rim and large throat (9.4 mm) soldered to the instrument; no backbore.
According to the serial number, this signal fox-hunting horn can be dated to the year 1867. A unique survivor in Adolphe Sax’s œuvre, it may have been a special commission or an experimental instrument, imitating the English fox-hunting horn (see NMM 7185). The AIS stamp is found on many instruments which entered public museums directly from Sax’s own private instrument collection. These instruments may have been made for his private museum. They were not included in any of Sax’s normal sales catalogs and, therefore, not part of the regular production line.
DimensionsHeight (including mouthpiece): 315 mm
Bell Diameter: 80 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
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. 204, 268.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07234
On View
Not on view
1880 ca.