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Alto horn, bell front, E-flat, high pitch
Trade Name: Beau Ideal (trade name of Lyon & Healy)
Distributor: Lyon & Healy
Date: 1894-1915 ca.
Place Made:France, Europe
Place Distributed:Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America
Model: Beau Ideal
Serial No: none
SignedEngraved on bell: BEAU IDEAL / CHICAGO
MarkingsStamped consecutively on valves: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve stem: Z
Stamped on second valve stem: Z
DescriptionBrass; with silver-plated finish. Three, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves.
DimensionsHeight: 550 mm
Bell diameter: 195 mm
Primary bore: 11.9 mm (0.470 in)
Bell diameter: 195 mm
Primary bore: 11.9 mm (0.470 in)
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Terms
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, pp. 56, 57, plate XI #2.
Object number: 01366