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Single horn, F

Single horn, F

Alternate name:French horn
Maker: Ohio Band Instrument Company (Division of F. A. Reynolds Company)
Date: 1941 ca.
Place Made:Cleveland, Ohio, United States, North America
Model: Regent
Serial No: 21274
SignedEngraved on bell: The / Regent / MADE BY / OHIO BAND / INSTRUMENT CO / CLEVELAND / O
MarkingsPartial serial number stamped in exterior of first and third valve casing and their respective bottom-valve caps, inner-valve supports, driver pivots and rotors: 274

Stamped on valve casings, touchpiece, bottom-valve cap, inner-valve cap support, driver pivots and bottom of rotors, respectively: 1 2 3

Stamped in the exterior of second valve casing, inside of second bottom-valve cap, on second inner-valve cap support, on second driver pivot, on bottom of second rotor: 21274

Stamped in the head of each rotor screw: OIL
Stamped in main-slide brace ferrule: 269
DescriptionBrass, lacquered. Three rotary valves with string linkages.
DimensionsCoil diameter: 315 mm
Bell diameter: 303 mm
Primary bore: 12 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Not on view
Published ReferencesGary Moege, “A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Shrine to Music Museum” (DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985) 150-51.
Object number: 00943