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Objekt 30

'lnventionshorn' in B1 flat, two and a half coils, eleven 'invention' crooks

Object description

Philipp Ferdinand Korn (1789–1857)

Mainz, 1st half of 19th c.

Brass

Invention crooks with tube intersection

for B1 flat, A1, A1 flat, G1, F1, E1, E1 flat, 0 1, 01 flat, C1, B2 flat;

three mouthpieces; the crooks for A1 flat,

A1 and B1 flat also serve as a SeRarate mouthpipe and

avoid the main mouthpipe, which makes it a sort of an early 'double horn'.

L. 2745 mm (tube with 'Invention' crook for B1 l lat); 0 320 mm (helix), 287 mm (bell-rim)

Bequest Dr. h.c. Wilhelm Bernoulli-Preiswerk

lnv. 1980.2101.

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