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End-blown horn

End-blown horn

Vernacular name:Bukkehorn
Date: 1900 ca.
Place Made:Sweden, Europe
Serial No: none
Signednone
Markingsnone
DescriptionGoats horn stained dark brown, naturally curved, serrated ridge with eyelet, four fingerholes, integral mouthpiece.

Traditional Finnish bukke horn, finely made and well preserved.
DimensionsHeight: 215 mm
Tube length (center line of curve): 210 mm
Bore diameter (initial, minimum): 11.5–6 mm
Fingerhole positions (to receiver end): 107 mm, 133 mm, 160 mm, 185 mm
Hole diameter: 4.6 mm
Bell diameter (maximum): 40 mm (max.)
ProvenancePurchased in 1997 from Tony Bingham, London, England.
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 2: Ways to Expand the Harmonic Series (Vermillion, SD: National Music Museum, 2013), pp. 53, 251.
Object number: 07233