B-Flat Tenor Horn
date: label: date made
content: 1878 - 1882
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This tenor horn was made around 1878 to 1882 and sold by the J. Howard Foote Company in New York and Chicago. It is a B-flat althorn, over-the shoulder model, made of nickel silver plated brass with 3 string-action rotary valves. This baritone horn has an engraved medallion:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>J.H.F.<br>NY&C</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Brass instruments bearing the medallion of J. Howard Foote were likely made for him by the firm of John Stratton or other factories in New York City.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>John Howard Foote (1833-1896) was a musical instrument dealer with shops in New York City and Chicago. This instrument listed in an 1880 J. Howard Foote catalog, sold as an American Military Band Style tenor horn (#5035), for $26.00.</p>
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
label: Exhibition
content: Wonderplace
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. Howard Foote
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MI.055588
label: catalog number
content: 55588
label: accession number
content: 11535
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Horn
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: German silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 8 3/4 in x 37 in; 33.02 cm x 22.225 cm x 93.98 cm
label: Measurements
content: bell: 21.9 cm; 8 5/8 in