| ID |
Instrument |
Maker |
Model |
Serial# |
Manuf. Date |
Key/Pitch |
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| 11057 |
Vocal horn |
Rudall-Carte |
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766 |
1862 |
C |
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| Logo: Prize Medal, 1862, Rudall Rose Carte & C0 20 Charing Cross London No 766.
":a Samson Finger-slide valve each piston, (spring loaded in a casing), has a finger (connector) on it’s side that is connect to the actual valve in the tube next to it. In other words, the tube and valve where air passes though is adjacent to the finger pistons."
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| 8838 |
Vocal Horn |
Rudall-Rose-Carte |
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| 8456 |
Vocal Horn |
Rudall-Carte |
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| 7454 |
Vocal Horn |
Spelbring |
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| 6375 |
Vocal Horn |
Rudall-Rose-Carte |
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This quaint-looking instrument pitched in C (one tone above the Bb tenor trombone, baritone, euphonium) is essentially a large version of the soprano Koenig horn or soprano Ballad horn (liedhorn). The bell was usually 6.5" in diameter.
The bore profile of these instruments varied from flugle to saxhorn (the latter of which falls somewhere between cornet and flugle), and were played using a "French" (waldhorn) horn mouthpiece.
This particular type of hybrid appeared five times that I know of: in the original 4ft C soprano Koenig horns of 1855-?, in the Vocal horns of Besson and Rudall, Carte & Rose from 1862 to 1871, in the soprano Ballad horns (liedhorns) of 1868-?, in the Besson Cornophones patented in 1890, that to the best of my knowledge lasted until some time around the First World War, and in the Getzen Frumpet from 1964-1985.
In taxonomic terms the 8ft marching "French" horn is more a cousin to these instruments than to the actual 12ft "French" horn.
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| 2122 |
Vocal Horn |
Wurlitzer |
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| 105 |
Vocal Horn |
Besson |
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Eb |
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| The Vocal horns are a hybrid instrument using a Horn mouthpiece, and having either a tenor flugle or a saxhorn bore profile, or consisting of a mixture of parts of these instruments, or else parts from Bb (alto register, sometimes refered to as soprano) flugles, cornets and trumpets. The bells of these horns vary somewhat, and those in this particular range average 6.5" in diameter.
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| 16 |
Vocal Horn |
Addison-Lucas |
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1865 |
F |
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| (210 Regent St. W., London)
Advertised as a Ballad horn, but the fact that it is probably an F instrument and uses a "French" horn mouthpiece and has a smaller 6.5" bell, these attributes place it in the Vocal horn camp.
Vocal horns are essentially tenor horns pitched in F that use a "French" horn mouthpiece.
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