Alto horn in helicon shape, E-flat
Date1875-1885 ca.
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
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SignedUnsignedMarkingsnone
DescriptionGerman-silver-plated brass, body in double loop with large coil, circle closed with dummy tube, tuning slide at small first bow, fixed curved leadpipe, three side-action (lever over) string-operated rotary valves (1, ½, 1½), double cork, spiral-spring return.
Similar alto horns in helicon shape were offered by the Boston Musical Instrument Manufactory in catalogs of 1869, 1874 and 1887, and by David C. Hall, also Boston, in a catalog from 1879. Provenance from Boston is therefore likely.
DimensionsHeight: ca. 570 mm
Tube length: 1913 mm
Bell diameter: 183 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1989 from Lark in the Morning, Mendocino, California.
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. 244-245, 312.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number06986
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