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BOOSEY & Co 'Class A light valve' piston horn
£295.00
Maker: BOOSEY & CO
Model: 'Orchestral Model Class A light valve'
Type: French-style piston horn with F crook and optional
Eb crook
Serial number: 65269, made in 1903.
Bell throat profile: Small
Alloy: yellow brass
Case: not provided.
Visual / cosmetic condition: generally 'good to moderate'; there are some small dings on the horn body, and very many large dings on the F crook, but nothing that impedes its playing qualities.
Valve compression: good, slightly leaky but OK if oiled regularly.
Further details: although quite ‘cosmetically challenged’ this horn plays well.
Fortunately, the instrument does NOT display the often-found ‘acute angle’ between crook and horn body.
Optionally available for an extra £60 is a vintage French Eb
crook, very 'cosmetically challenged', but which plays well,
with the horn's tuning slides pulled out for intonation
purposes.
NB: the low price of this horn reflects its much-used condition.
Its in-line pistons would allow it to be converted very easily to a valveless hand horn, but this course of action would be inadvisable, since it plays well as a piston-valve horn.
Its valve slides are short enough to give good intonation, when pushed in fully, with an A crook (not supplied)
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