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Over-the-shoulder alto horn, E-flat
Maker: Ernst Theodor Seltmann
Date: 1860-1875 ca.
Place Made:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: E. SELTMANN / MAKER / PHILA.
Markingsnone
DescriptionBrass; with brass bell garland. Three, bottom-sprung Berlin valves.
DimensionsHeight: 780 mm
Bell diameter: 190 mm
Bore (second valve slide): 12.0 mm (0.472 in)
Bell diameter: 190 mm
Bore (second valve slide): 12.0 mm (0.472 in)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
On view
Published References“Gallery I Dedicated October 9,” Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2, (January 1982), p. 1,4.
Gary Moege, A Catalogue of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Shrine to Music Museum, DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985, p. 120-121.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion:
National Music Museum, 1988), p. 54.
Eugenia Mitroulia, Adolphe Sax’s Brasswind Production with a Focus on Saxhorns and Related Instruments, Ph. D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011, pp. 359, 461.
Gary Moege, A Catalogue of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Shrine to Music Museum, DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985, p. 120-121.
André P. Larson, The National Music Museum: A Pictorial Souvenir (Vermillion:
National Music Museum, 1988), p. 54.
Eugenia Mitroulia, Adolphe Sax’s Brasswind Production with a Focus on Saxhorns and Related Instruments, Ph. D. thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011, pp. 359, 461.
Object number: 00784