Trompe à neuf tours. Nominal pitch: 14-ft D.

Gautrot
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Alternative Title

Trompe à neuf tours

Instrument

Hunting horn

Instrument Family

Wind

Maker

Gautrot

Place Made

Paris; Europe; France; Western Europe

Date Made

Late 19th Century

Description

Technical description: Brass; 9 tightly wound coils of tubing spiralling first inwards then outwards; seam on bell with wide gusset; 6 overlapping joins; bell join covered with a ferrule. The bell is highly elliptical; inside of bell painted black; no bell garland.

Notes

catalogue information; basic IM information only

Measurements

445 at widest point

Collection

MIMEd

Accession Number

6037

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