Single horn, F, low pitch
ALTERNATE NAME(S)
- French horn
Maker
Ernst Albert Couturier
Date1918 ca.
Place MadeLa Porte, Indiana, United States, North America
ModelConical Bore
Serial No.2918
SignedEngraved on bell: CONICAL / BORE / PAT’D / E. A. Couturier Co. / LTD. / LA PORTE / INDMarkingsStamped on valve casings, respectively: 1 2 3
Stamped on second valve casing, front: 2918
Stamped on second valve casing, back: F / PAT'D / SEPT.23-13
DescriptionBrass; with later, tinted lacquer. Three, front-action, bottom-sprung Perinet piston valves. Mother-of-pearl touchpieces. Main tuning slide before valve cluster. Continuous conical bore (1913 patent) which results in no valve slide tuning, open/little obstructed curves in tubing.
DimensionsCoil diameter: 340 mm
Bell diameter: 305 mm
ProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.
Published ReferencesGary Moege, A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments in the Shrine to Music Museum, DMA dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1985, pp. 538-539.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number03227
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