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Coach horn, F
Maker: Swaine & Adeney
Date: 1910 ca.
Place Made:London, England, Europe
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: SWAINE & ADENEY, LONDON / PROPRIETOR OF / KOHLER & SON / MADE IN ENGLAND
Markingsnone
DescriptionCopper (body), German-silver (ferrule, bell rim); one straight conical tube with very little bell flare; no tuning slide.
Typical English coach horn, exclusively used with four-in-hand teams, and employed until 1914 on the London to Oxford mail route. Swaine & Adeney became proprietors of Köhler & Son after 1907, specializing in short, straight fox-hunting horns, but also producing the longer coach horn.
Typical English coach horn, exclusively used with four-in-hand teams, and employed until 1914 on the London to Oxford mail route. Swaine & Adeney became proprietors of Köhler & Son after 1907, specializing in short, straight fox-hunting horns, but also producing the longer coach horn.
DimensionsHeight/Tube length: 878 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 9.2 mm, 8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 65 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 9.2 mm, 8.8 mm
Bell diameter: 65 mm
Terms
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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. 205, 266.
Object number: 07068