Ian F wrote:
Ian F wrote:
Just stumbled over these pictures of Franz Strauss's horn.
http://www.pizka.de/fstrau3.htmWell I thought it was interesting.
I'll get my anorak and go.
Check out these horns
http://www.naturallyhorns.co.uk/handhornsandrew.htm http://www.naturallyhorns.co.uk/myhorns.htm "That's the first horn that I made copy of in 2008! The original is actually closer to 150 years old and had valve tuning slides for horn in F, although to my eye they look like they were made later, maybe by another maker: the ferrules and stays are different. I made it because I thought it would be more likely to have a good high register than any of my leaky old antique horns. I used it for the Schumann Konzertstuck two years ago in three performances with OAE using an F crook, and still managed to get the top Es. In the first attachment you'll see the two horns I made in Dunster, British Columbia at the workshop of Keith Berg. One of them is the Strauss - Ottensteiner horn, the other a model of a Sandbach which was used at Covent Garden by principal horn player Cornelius O'Brien in around 1820."
Andrew Clark