Post horn, B-flat
Date1866 ca.
Place MadeBrno, Moravia, Europe
Model
Serial No.none
SignedStamped on bell: K. u. K. Poststallhalterei / Brünn 1866MarkingsCast coat of arms applied to bell above signature: Austrian double-eagle with crown, shield (divided in three parts: left, lion rampant; center, fess in red/white/red; right, grapes/three bees/grapes), sword and orb.
DescriptionBrass; double coiled; French rim; no tuning slide.
This post stable horn was used in Brünn, Moravia.
DimensionsHeight: 233 mm
Tube length: ca. 1395 mm
Bore diameter: 11.2 mm
Bell diameter: 130 mm
ProvenancePurchased in 1996, Munich, Germany.
Published ReferencesSabine Katharina Klaus, 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. 209, 264.
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Brass Instruments, ed. by Trevor Herbert, Arnold Myers, and John Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), p. 327.
Credit LineJoe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Object number07140
On View
Not on view
1900 ca.
