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Post horn, B-flat

Post horn, B-flat

Date: 1866 ca.
Place Made:Brno, Moravia, Europe
Model:
Serial No: none
SignedStamped on bell: K. u. K. Poststallhalterei / Brünn 1866
MarkingsCast 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.
Credit Line: Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Collection, 1999
Not on view
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.
Object number: 07140