Natural hunting horn, D
Alternate name(s)
- Trompe de chasse
Maker
Joseph Raoux
Maker
Lucien-Joseph Raoux
Date1775 ca.
Place MadeParis, France, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell garland: FAIT A PARIS PAR RAOUX (on rolled-over edge) / · ORDINAIRE · DU · ROY · RUE · / TICQUETONNEMarkingsDecorative engraving throughout bell garland with multiple iterations: R X
DescriptionBrass body in 2 1/2 coils (multiple segments due to repairs and possible replacements); fixed leadpipe; bell with tab seam and three gussets (one large, two small), blackened inside; Saxon rim with iron-wire insert; the stamped signature and decoration are rolled over the garland's edge (possibly not original).
DimensionsTube length: ca. 4590 mm
Height: 652 mm
Outer coil diameter: ca. 520 mm
Internal diameter receiver: 7.2 mm
Bell diameter: 265 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1978 from Wurlitzer-Bruck, New York, New York.
Published References"Important Acquisitions Continue to be Made," Shrine to Music Museum Newsletter 7, No. 2 (April 1980), p. 2.
Gary Ray Moege, "A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments," D.M.A. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985, pp. 500-501.
Margaret Downie Banks, "17th-and 18th-Century Brass Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin 58, No. 2 (1987), pp. 58-59.
Thomas Tritle, "Horns in The Shrine to Music Museum," Horn Call (October 1988), p. 31.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1978
Object number02488
On View
Not on view
1750 ca.