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Description: | Bass horn, wooden body of two straight tubes united in a butt, body leather-covered, with a bell of uncovered wood and a long swan-necked copper crook terminating in a brass ferrule not apparently adapted to take a mouthpiece directly. Six ivory-bushed finger holes, four brass keys. Cushion for back of left thumb. Brass stay at upper end of tubes. Lacks mouthpiece and flap of D sharp key. Stamped: J. Harding Maker Woking, Surrey.
During the first half of the 19th century, makers devised more portable and easily playable forms of the serpent by configuring the instrument in an upright position.
caption: General view of object no. 14.5.47/289.
caption: Image of bass horn (museum no. 14.5.47/289) | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | 423.213 Labrosones with fingerholes with (wider) conical bore wood metal flint paint ivory leather textile copper alloy bass horns | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-12440 | Go to resource |
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