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Horn, F

Alternate name(s)
  • Inventionshorn
Date1834-1849 ca.
Place MadeLondon, Westminster, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved at garland: Improved & Made by / CHAS. PACE. / 49 King Street, / Westminster
MarkingsEngraved on bell: Royal Dockyard Battalion
DescriptionBrass body and fittings
Two-and-a-half coils (including invention crook)
Invention crook with crossed tubing
Removable terminal crook (only one present for F, others lost)
Undecorated brass grland
Saxon rim with iron wire insert.
DimensionsCoil diameter: ca. 270 mm
Bell diameter: 292 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson. Catalog of the Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments. Ph.D. Dissertation. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University, 1974. Pp. 38-40.

Gary Moege, A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments . . ., DMa Dissertation, (University of Oklahoma, 1985), pp. 32-34, plate III.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00426
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