| ID |
Instrument |
Maker |
Model |
Serial# |
Manuf. Date |
Key/Pitch |
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| 11649 |
Ballad Horn |
Martin |
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| 11439 |
Ballad Horn |
Conn |
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|
1896 |
C/Bb |
 |
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| 11419 |
Ballad Horn |
Lyon-Healy |
Jaubert |
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|
 |
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| 11141 |
Ballad Horn |
Missenharter |
|
5594 |
|
|
 |
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| 11035 |
Ballad Horn |
Distin |
|
26655 |
|
|
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| Patent Light Valve | Distin & Co. | Makers | 9 & 10 GRT NEWPORT ST | LONDON | 26655
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| 10996 |
Ballad Horn |
Millereau |
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|
 |
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| 10888 |
Ballad Horn |
anon |
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Bb |
 |
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| 9885 |
Ballad Horn |
Distin |
|
24760 |
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|
 |
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| 8701 |
Ballad Horn |
Boosey |
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|
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| Bass Ballad Horn
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| 8601 |
Ballad Horn |
Holton |
|
1695 |
1905 |
C/Bb |
 |
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| 8088 |
Ballad Horn |
Rudolph |
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|
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| Jul. Rudolph | Hof Instr M. | Gotha. | 1608
|
| 7361 |
Ballad Horn |
Fillmore |
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|
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| 6712 |
Ballad Horn |
Jaubert |
|
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Bb |
 |
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| 6551 |
Ballad Horn |
LaFleur |
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|
 |
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| 6417 |
Ballad Horn |
Besson |
|
42858 |
|
|
 |
| F. Besson Breveté SGDG 96 rue d’Angouleme Paris
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| 6142 |
Ballad Horn |
Conn |
8E |
249268 |
1927 |
Bb/C |
 |
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| 4196 |
Ballad Horn |
(anon) |
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Bb |
 |
| This Bb instrument has same length of tubing as a Bb baritone.
stamped: Czecho-Slovakia
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| 169 |
Ballad Horn |
Salvation Army |
|
|
1930 |
|
 |
| It is a C instrument that actually plays one tone higher than the Bb baritone/euphonium/tenor trombone.
Like the Boosey & Co. bass Ballad horn, this instrument has a smaller bell than the original 1855-1856 Courtois Koenig horns, but all three instruments belong to the flugle family, and are not hybrid instruments build of parts that are interchangeable with such instruemnts as the Horn, cornet, trumpet, Eb tenor horn.
Note the width of the bell throat throughout, and the manner in which it resembles the bells of such instruments as saxhorns. It is this particular feature that defines what constitues a flugle instrument, along with a deep parabolic or V-cup mouthpiece.
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| 161 |
Ballad Horn |
Thibouville-Lamy |
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|
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| 160 |
Ballad Horn |
Thibouville-Lamy |
|
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|
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| 159 |
Ballad Horn |
Thibouville-Lamy |
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|
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| 97 |
Ballad Horn |
Boosey |
|
109343 |
c1920s |
Eb |
 |
| Engraving:
SOLBRON" (REGISTERED) (Valve material)
CLASS A (Highest quality)
"BOOSEY" Fanfare Trumpet Trademark
LIGHT VALVE
BOOSEY & CO
MAKERS, LONDON
109343
GUARANTEED BRITISH MADE THROUGHOUT
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| 96 |
Ballad Horn |
Boosey-Hawkes |
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| This was one of a small number of deluxe horns, made by Boosey & Co., that starting in 1874 languished in stock for a good long while.
This is a C instrument with Bb crook that is refered to as a bass Ballad horn, although the pitch of this instrument with the Bb crook is the same as tenor trombone/baritone/euphonium.
The Ballad horn patent and design had been sold by Henry Distin to Boosey & Co. previously in 1868. By the time this horn was made, Boosey had abandoned its attempts to market these horns as a unified family of C instruments in the soprano, alto, tenor and bass registers, leaving only the "bass" version in C that necessarily came with a Bb crook, as this horn would inevitably have seen use in the same role as the tenor trombone/baritone/euphonium.
As you can tell by the small bell, this was a flugle instrument. Later versions of Ballad horns by a variety of manufacturers would hit upon this design as well as others that more resembled the hybrids such as Vocal horns and mellophones.
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