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Echo-horn, G

Echo-horn, G

Maker: C. G. Conn
Date: 1896
Place Made:Elkhart, Indiana, United States, North America
Place Made:New York, New York, United States, North America
Serial No: 60090
SignedEngraved on open bell: C. G. Conn / MAKER / ELKHART, IND / AND / NEW YORK
Engraved on echo bell: MADE / BY / C. G. CONN / ELKHART, IND. & / NEW YORK
MarkingsStamped on second valve casing: 1-1/2 / 60090
DescriptionThis unusual instrument was built at the request of Theodor Hoch for use in the Mozart Symphony Club of New York. After a bit of sleuthing by NMM curators, in a photograpy of the Mozart Symphony Club, the instrument lies on the floor at Hoch's feet. Hoch's echo horn (that he liked to refer to in programs as his "Alpine echo horn"), like the double-bell euphonium, has a second bell, the bore of which is much smaller than the main bell. When the echo bell is activated by the fourth piston, the air column is diverted through this constricted bell. The result is a muted or echo-like tone quality.

Brass; with silver-plated, satin finish. Gold wash bell interior. Three, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves. Mother-of-pearl touchpieces. Piston change valve.
DimensionsBell diameters: 137mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Credit Line: Arne B. Larson Collection, 1979
On view
Published References"Arne B. Larson Featured On Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," Shrine to Music Museum, Inc. Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1974), p. 2.

Margaret Banks, "Nineteenth-Century Brass Instruments at the Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin 61, No. 1 (1998), pp. 58-59.

Margaret Banks, "Echos From the Past . . . Research Reveals Unique Instruments
History," America's Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 24, No. 3 (April 1997), pp. 4-5.
Object number: 02484