B B-Flat Contrabass Horn
date: label: date made
content: 1878 - 1882
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This contrabass 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 contrabass, helicon model, made of German silver with 3 string-action rotary valves. This instrument 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 a double contrabass (#5046), for $100.00. As indicated in the Foote catalog, <i>“the double contrabass No. 5046 is the largest Bass Instrument made. Its key note stands two octaves below the B-flat Baritone, and is highly recommended for large band”.</i></p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Densmore, Frances. Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum.
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.055592
label: accession number
content: 11535
label: catalog number
content: 55592
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contrabass horn
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: Geman silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 37 3/4 in x 29 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 95.885 cm x 74.93 cm
label: Measurements
content: coil: 34 in; 86.36 cm
label: Measurements
content: bell: 11 3/4 in; 29.845 cm