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French Horns
French horns, descant horns, Wagner tubas, horn makers, and orchestral horn model families.
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Gebr. Alexander 103
French horn · Germany
The Gebr. Alexander Model 103 is a professional double horn made in Mainz, Germany, playable in either F or B-flat using a thumb-operated change lever. One of the most widely used orchestral horns in the world, it is prized for its tone and intonation and is offered with a detachable-bell option.
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Holton H179 Farkas
French horn · United States
The Holton H179 is the flagship professional Farkas-model full double horn in F/B-flat (reversible to B-flat/F). It has all nickel-silver construction, a 0.468-inch bore, a large-throat 12.25-inch hand-hammered nickel-silver bell, tapered rotors, and string linkage. Designed for the 'big horn' artist, it produces a rich, dark sound and is one of the most popular professional double horns in the United States.
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Engelbert Schmid Vienna Horn
Germany
The Engelbert Schmid Vienna Horn is a handmade single F Vienna horn with the traditional Viennese pumpenvalve mechanism and a detachable crook. It can be converted to a B-flat Vienna horn within minutes by removing intermediate valve-slide pieces and fitting the B-flat crook.
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Yamaha YHR-871
French horn · Japan
The Yamaha YHR-871 is a Custom-series full double horn in F/B-flat built on a traditional Geyer-style wrap. It has a 0.476-inch (12.1 mm) bore, a solid yellow brass body, nickel-silver valve casings, four rotary valves, and a hand-hammered bell. A detachable-bell version is offered as the YHR-871D. It is valued for clear, deep, resonant tone in professional and orchestral playing.
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Hans Hoyer 801 Geyer Style
French horn · Germany
The Hans Hoyer 801 is a German-made professional full double horn in F/B-flat built on a Geyer-style wrap. It has a 0.468-inch (11.9 mm) bore, a medium-large hand-hammered 310 mm (12.2-inch) bell, a gold-brass leadpipe, four conical rotary valves, and a string linkage. It is offered with a brass or optional gold-brass body and a fixed or detachable bell.
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Engelbert Schmid Double Horn
Germany
The Engelbert Schmid Double Horn is a handmade full double horn in F and B-flat, the core of Engelbert Schmid's range. It is offered with an A-stopping valve and in several metal alloys, bell sizes, and screw- or fixed-bell configurations. Schmid double horns are noted for their even response and are used by orchestral players worldwide.
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Engelbert Schmid Triple Horn
Germany
The Engelbert Schmid Triple Horn combines B-flat, F, and a high-F or high-E-flat side in one handmade instrument. Schmid is noted as the only maker to offer an F/B-flat/high-E-flat triple, and the horns are built as compensating or full triples, optionally with a stopping valve.
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Yamaha YHR-567
French horn · Japan
A Yamaha full double horn in F/B-flat with yellow brass body and four valves.
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Engelbert Schmid Descant Horn
Germany
The Engelbert Schmid Descant Horn is a handmade descant horn, usually built as a double with a B-flat side and an E-flat alto side pitched an octave above the F side of a standard double horn. It is intended for high, exposed repertoire such as Baroque and Classical works.
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Paxman Model 25
French horn · United Kingdom
The Paxman Model 25 is a British-made professional full double horn built on the Model 20 with Paxman's dual-bore system, which widens the F side so it resists like the B-flat side. It is highly configurable in bore, bell throat, material, and bell attachment, and is valued for even response across both sides of the horn.
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Paxman Model 20
French horn · United Kingdom
The Paxman Model 20 is a British-made professional full double horn in F/B-flat built around Paxman's Merewether system, which routes air through the valve section in the same direction on both the F and B-flat sides for smooth slurring and legato. It has a 12.2-inch bell and four rotary valves, and is highly configurable, offered in medium, medium-large, or large bore; yellow brass, gold brass, or nickel silver; and fixed or detachable bell.
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Ricco Kühn W 283
Germany
A double French horn by Ricco Kühn of Germany, part of the W-series of handmade professional horns and recommended with the workshop's universal ML2 bell flare for even response across the range.
Sources
Makers
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C.G. Conn
C.G. Conn is an American maker of band and orchestral brass and wind instruments, founded by Charles Gerard Conn in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1875.
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Engelbert Schmid Horns
Engelbert Schmid Horns is a German horn maker associated with handmade single, double, triple, descant, and Wagner tuba instruments.
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Hans Hoyer
Hans Hoyer is a German French horn brand associated with professional double horns, descant horns, and orchestral horn models.
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Paxman
Paxman is a British maker and specialist shop focused on French horns, descant horns, triple horns, and horn servicing.
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Frank Holton & Co.
Frank Holton & Co. (Holton) is an American brass instrument maker founded by trombonist Frank Holton in Chicago in 1898 and based in Elkhorn, Wisconsin from 1918. One of the world's largest makers of French horns, it developed its Farkas horn line in the late 1950s in partnership with Chicago Symphony principal horn Philip Farkas. Holton is now a brand of Conn-Selmer.
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Gebr. Alexander
Gebr. Alexander is a Mainz brass maker especially associated with professional French horns, Wagner tubas, trumpets, and low brass.
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Ricco Kühn
Ricco Kühn is a German brass and horn maker associated with professional French horns, Wagner tubas, and handmade orchestral brass instruments.
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Brass Instruments
Lip-vibrated wind instruments made primarily from brass or related metals.