Natural horn, F
Maker
Wolf Wilhelm Haas
Date1710-1720 ca.
Place MadeNuremberg, Germany, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved on bell garland: MACHT IOHANN / WILHELM / HAAS INNV / RNBERGMarkingsMaster's mark with initials engraved on bell garland: [hare leaping left, looking backwards, front legs off the ground] / I W H
DescriptionBrass; garland with straight upper edge and stamped scallop-shell decoration (raised with spherical punch tool from back), applied cast hunting figures; Nuremberg rim, wire with impressed ear-of-corn pattern; receiver ferrule with impressed pattern, other ferrules with engraved rings. Single coiled.
Overall design and style of hunting figures similar to horn by Johann Carl Kodisch (NMM 07459).
DimensionsOuter coil diameter: 327 mm
Tube length: 1786 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 8.1 mm, 7.1 mm
Bell diameter: 153 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1984 from Ursula Menzel, Munich, Germany.
Published ReferencesKlaus, Sabine Katharina. Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 1: Instruments of the Single Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2012), pp. 110, 133–134, 154.
Klaus, S. K. "Horn oder Trompete? Ein Instrument von Johann Carl Kodisch, Nürnberg 1684," in: Jagd- und Waldhörner: Geschichte und musikalische Nutzung. Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte, vol. 70, ed. by Boje E. Hans Schmuhl and Monika Lustig (Augsburg: Wißner, 2006), pp. 155-176, esp. p. 166.
Tritle, Thomas. "Horns in The Shrine to Music Museum," Horn Call (October 1988), p. 32.
Banks, Margaret Downie. "17th-and 18th-Century Brass Instruments at The Shrine to Music Museum," Brass Bulletin 58, no. 2 (1987), pp. 54-57.
Heyde, Herbert. "Zwischen Hörnern und Jägertrompeten," Brass Bulletin 55, no. 3 (1986), pp. 48 and 50.
Larson, André P. "1984 Acquisitions at USD Music Museum," Newsletter of the American Musical Instrument Society 14, no. 1 (February 1985), p. 4.
Moege, Gary Ray. "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. 27-29.
Credit LineBoard of Trustees, 1984
Object number03488
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