Orchestral horn

Millereau

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Instrument

Valve horn

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Millereau

Place Made

France ; Europe ; Western Europe ; Paris

Date Made

1879-1898

Description

Technical description: Orchestral hand-horn with set of three Périnet valves, almost certainly original. Valves have short slides (A and below). As stands, secured by a ligature fitting on distal slide branch. Valveless arms made by Phil Parker 1981; the original arms and tuning-slide were probably slightly different (parallel). With both high and low pitch tuning-slides. Sounding length: mouthpipe length 430mm as hand-horn; segment lengths, from distal end of ferrule after valves 575mm; bell segment 934mm. Bore: m.t.s. 10.6 - 11.2; v.t.s. (3,2,1) 11.0 (i.e. decrease). Bell wall angle at D=100mm, 27.3°. Dia of mouthpiece receiver: m.r.t. of crook 8.2 at end; crook receiver taper on body 12.6 - 12.8. Metal construction: yellow brass; seamed gusseted bell, bell garland width 30; seamed intermediate and mouthpipe segments. With French pattern F crook and semitone coupler. Valve type: Long-stem Périnet valves. Repair History: 50mm sleeve covers damage (tube cut ?) to bell segment. 50mm defect in overturned edge of bell rim. Bell punched with M.A. Raoux poinçon on side opposite stay and engraved "Millereau" below stay. Inscribed on bell garland "RAOUX BREVETE SGDG FOURNISSEUR DU CONSERVATOIRE 66 RUE D'ANGOULÈME PARIS" and "A W GILMER & CO SOLE AGENTS 2 GT MARLBORO ST LONDON W". Inscribed on valves "1", "2 / MILLEREAU / PARIS", "3", on crook "F / FA". Usable pitch: Plays in F at low pitch with H-piece and shorter tuning-slide as a natural horn. Plays in high pitch with valves and shorter tuning-slide and in low pitch with valves and longer tuning-slide. Performance characteristics: Even response from 2nd to 16th natural notes. Bright, clear French sound. Good intonation. Purchased by lender with and possibly formerly used with mouthpiece (1125).

Other Information

General usage of type: Good orchestral horn of Raoux pattern: in England would have been used exclusively with valves. Paris Conservatoire convention at this period necessitated detachable valves for French use.

Notes

P. Lewis, 1987, 20.12.96; R. Parks, 09.02.91, 9.3.96.

Measurements

Corpus diameter 330mm; bell diameter 277mm.

Provenance

on loan to the Collection.

Collection

MIMEd ; Mickleburgh Collection

Accession Number

1124

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