Post horn, C

Distributor Franz Schrott

Date1900 ca.

Place MadeSaxony, Germany

Place DistributedGraz, Austria, Europe

Serial No.none

SignedEngraved at bell: Franz Schrott Graz Reitschulgasse 16
Markingsnone
DescriptionBrass, German silver, double coil, telescopic tuning slide at leadpipe, three rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), three-point-wing device, one stop pin, clock-spring return.

Franz Schrott is recorded as a woodwind maker and musical instrument dealer at Reitschulgasse 16 in Graz. The business was founded in 1897 and is listed until 1929-1930 in Paul de Wit’s Weltaddressbuch. It is, therefore, likely that Schrott only sold but not made this post horn. Stylistic features point at an origin in Austria or Saxony.
DimensionsHeight: 196 mm
Tube length: 1108 mm, 1124 mm
Bore diameter receiver: 11 mm
Bore diameter valves: 11 mm
Bore diameter tuning slide (initial, minimum): 10.7 mm, 9.8 mm
Bell diameter: 119 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1999 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, Trumpets and Other High Brass: A History Inspired by the Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection. Volume 3: Valves Evolve (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2017), pp. 185-186, 190, 305.

Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999

Object number06202

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