Over-the-shoulder tenor horn, B-flat
Maker
Stratton & Foote
Date1864-1865 ca.
Place MadeNew York, New York, United States, North America
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on nickel-silver plaque attached to bell: Stratton / & Foote / 31 / Maiden Lane / N. Y.MarkingsScratched into underside of keys, respectively: I II II
Stamped on rotor caps/rings: 39 30 31(sic)
DescriptionNickel-silver; with nickel-silver bell garland. Three, top-action rotary valves with string linkages.
DimensionsHeight: 900 mm
Bell diameter: 175 mm
Bore (second valve slide): 12.1 mm (0.478 in)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published References“Gallery I Dedicated October 9,” Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 2, (January 1982), p. 1,4.
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. 362, 463.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00785
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