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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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