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Single horn, F
Alternate name:French horn
Maker: Couesnon & Cie
Date: 1919 ca.
Place Made:Paris, France, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE DE PARIS (in banners) / 1900 / HORS CONCOURS / MEMBRE DU JURY / [monogram] / COUESNON & CIE / FOURNISSEURS DE L’ARMEE / 94 RUE D’ANGOULEME / PARIS. / 19 (inside a grenade/pomegranate)
MarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
DescriptionBrass; with later, gold-tinted lacquer. Three, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves. Mother-of-pearl touchpieces.
DimensionsCoil diameter: 370 mm
Bell diameter: 275 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
Bell diameter: 275 mm
Bore: cannot be measured
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. 530-531.
Object number: 03223