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KRUSPE/KNOPF (attrib.) single F with 2 detachable shanks
£220.00
A good, relatively inexpensive single
F horn with 3 rotary valves
and a 'medium-large' bell throat.
Although it is un-signed and un-stamped, I am 95% sure that it was made in the workshop of a German 'Meister' horn maker, e.g. Knopf, Kruspe, etc, possibly by an apprentice.
It is nicely free-blowing, with a very clear high register, and weighs only 1.6 kg.
It comes with 2 slightly different detachable 'F shanks', both of them modern reproduction / replacements, since the original is presumed lost. Only the longer one (longer by approx 1 cm) is shown in the photos.
Using this shank, the main slide can be pulled out far enough to give a pitch of A 435.
This vintage horn, probably 100+ years old, could
be used for period instrument performance of the
19th century ‘Romantic’ repertoire (e.g. Schumann,
Brahms, Dvorak, Bruckner, Mahler, Strauss, etc).