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valve horn
Before the invention of valves, horn players altered the pitch by closing off the instrument's bell to varying degrees with their hand. This also varied the tone colour, and many players were unimpressed by the uniformity offered by valves. The slow take-up of the new technology led to a number of transitional instrument designs. This horn has only two valves, whereas the modern instrument has at …
Type of item
- valve horns
- valve horns
Type of item
- valve horns
- valve horns
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
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Creation date
- 1910
- 1910
Places
- London
Provenance
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
Identifier
- http://collections.horniman.ac.uk/objects/122525
Format
- metal
- cork
- copper alloy
- German silver
- plating
- steel
- solder
- Metal
Year
- 1910
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-11-18T11:02:14.153Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T17:51:38.507Z