Horn, F
ALTERNATE NAME(S)
- Inventionshorn
- Natural horn
Maker
Charles Pace
Date1834-1849 ca.
Place MadeLondon, Westminster, England, Europe
Serial No.none
SignedEngraved at garland: Improved & Made by / CHAS. PACE. / 49 King Street, / WestminsterMarkingsEngraved on bell: Royal Dockyard BattalionDescriptionBrass body and fittingsTwo-and-a-half coils (including invention crook)
Invention crook with crossed tubing
Removable terminal crook (only one present for F, others lost)
Undecorated brass grland
Saxon rim with iron wire insert.DimensionsCoil diameter: ca. 270 mm
Bell diameter: 292 mmProvenanceArne B. Larson Collection, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1979.Published ReferencesAndré P. Larson. Catalog of the Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection of Musical Instruments. Ph.D. Dissertation. Morgantown, West Virginia: West Virginia University, 1974. Pp. 38-40.
Gary Moege, A Catalog of the Alto Brass Instruments . . ., DMa Dissertation, (University of Oklahoma, 1985), pp. 32-34, plate III.
Credit LineArne B. Larson Collection, 1979
Object number00426
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