Coach Horn (Folded Coach Horn)

Catalogue number: 6.12

Original name: Coach Horn (Folded coach horn).

Nominal pitch: B flat.

Place of origin: England, c.1930.

Overall size: 544mm, bell diameter: 99mm.

Sounding length: 1348mm.

Diameter of mouthpiece receiver: 9mm.

Technical description: Brass with silver-plated tuning slide sleeves. Two ‘folds’ each with a tuning slide.

Faults: Bell rim badly dented.

Usable pitch: a’ = 430 Hz.

Illustration references: See below.

Recording references: Bugles Trumpets and Cornopeans Recordings