423.121.22

Hand horn, cor d'orchestre. Yellow brass throughout. Internal tuning slide and terminal crooking. Complete set of nine crooks: master crooks for C, D, E-flat, E, F, G, A and B-flat and a coupler for B-flat basso. Interior of bell decorated in gold on a crimson ground in a floral design alternating with lyres. Brass mouthpiece contemporary.

Orchestral hand horns came with a full complement of crooks that allowed the player to change the length, and thus the key, of the instrument as required by the music.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
14.5.47/122
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
width across coils: 330 mm; bell: 283 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
brass; metal
CATEGORY
Musical Instruments
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