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Description: | This division of the Collection includes the french horns, cornophones, Wagner tubas, bugles, cornetts, serpents, ophicleides and related instruments. In total there are over 200 instruments plus a similar number of mouthpieces. The french horns in the Edinburgh University Collection represent two centuries of development. They cover the period when makers became skilled enough to create a tube of length and taper with a series of playable notes spanning the range of the male voice, through to the time when this range became fully chromatic and homogeneous through mechanical improvements. The Collection includes several instruments with important provenance. These include the cornett (3189) and the serpent by Baudouin (3606) which were used by Christopher Monk (1921-1991) both as his playing instruments and as models for the instruments he made. | Subjects: | Ophicleides; Cornophones; Russian bassoons. Trompes; Horns; Alphorns; Wagner tubas; Clairons; Historic Musical Instruments; Serpents; French horns; Flugelhorns; Bugles; Cornetts; | Source: | University of Edinburgh | Address: | Old College, South Bridge,
EH8 9YL | Creator: | Robert Glen (1835-1911); | Identifier: | http://hdl.handle.net/10683/690... | Go to resource |
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