Objekt 40
Valve French Horn in C, two rotary valves
Object description
Jean Halary-Aste (c. 1775 – c. 1840)
Paris, 1st half of 19th c.
Brass (body), bell painted inside;
Iron (push rods for the 'actfon'); nickel silver (plate, crook)
four-and-a-half-coiled; two rotary valves with 'Stecher-Trommeldruckwerk' for semitone and whole-tone; crook for F1; mouthpiece
L. 2092 mm (tube); 0 320 mm (helix), 286 mm (bell-rim)
Purchase
lnv. 1962.64.