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30
Ibid., 47.
31
Ibid., 38.
32
Tremmel, Blasinstrumentenbau, 450.
33
Quoted after ibid., 452. For Michael Saurle the “Vienna valve” was thus a rotary valve!
34
The “Kuhlohorn” was a fluegelhorn with a very distinct oval shape, as can be seen in Heyde, Das
Ventilblasinstrument, 304, no. 6. Apparently this form was occasionally also transferred to trumpets.
35
For detailed description and a drawing see Robert E. Eliason, Early American Brass Makers
(Nashville, TN: The Brass Press, 1981), 7.
36
Heyde, Das Ventilblasinstrument, 81.
37
Quoted after Tremmel, Blasinstrumentenbau, 451.
38
Ibid., 473 and 481.
39
Ibid., 117-21.
40
Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung 19 (1817): cols. 814-16.
41
Quoted after Tremmel, Blasinstrumentenbau, 118.
42
John Henry van der Meer, Verzeichnis der Europäischen Musikinstrumente im Germanischen
Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Band I: Hörner und Trompeten, Membranophone, Idiophone
(Wilhelmshaven: Heinrichshofen’s Verlag, 1979), 39-40; and Herbert Heyde, Blasinstrumente,
Orgeln, Harmoniums. Katalog zu den Sammlungen des Händel-Hauses in Halle (Halle an der Saale:
Händel-Haus Halle, 1980), 48-49.
43
Richard J. Martz, “Reversed Chirality in Horns, or Is Left Right? The Horn, on the Other Hand,”
in this issue.
44
Heyde, Das Ventilblasinstrument, 82. Martz, “Reversed Chirality,” discusses similar customs for
holding the horn while riding a horse.
45
Tremmel, Blasinstrumentenbau, 451.
46
Kastner, Manuel général, pl. XV.
47
Quoted after Tremmel, Blasinstrumentenbau, 452.
48
Quoted after Webb, “Bradshaw’s Serpentine Valved Cornopean,” 153.
49
For deviations from the normal valve order other than those discussed here, see the comments on
early Prussian cornets and Swedish brass instruments with the valve order whole-tone, semitone, major
third in Dieter Krickeberg and Wolfgang Rauch, Katalog der Blechblasinstrumente (Berlin: Staatliches
Institut für Musikforschung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1976), 65; Heyde, Das Ventilblasinstrument,
205-06; and Ann-Marie Nilsson, “Brass Instruments in Small Swedish Wind Band Ensembles during
the Late Nineteenth Century,” Historic Brass Society Journal 13 (2001): 176-209.
50
Quoted after Eliason, “Early American Valves,” 86.
51
Andreas Masel, Das große Ober- und Niederbayerische Blasmusikbuch (München: Schwingenstein-
Verlag, 1989), 81, 83.
52
Quoted after ibid., 83.
53
Quoted after Tremmel, Blasinstrumentenbau, 481.
54
Stadtarchiv Ingolstadt, A XIV/183: Zeugnisse u. Lieferungen des Musikinstrumenten-Fabrikanten
Ferdinand Stegmaier, 1864-1884.
55
Tremmel, Blasinstrumentenbau, 450-52, 456-63, 471-75, 481-85.
56
Musikinstrumenten-Museum Markneukirchen, F 29, no. 741. Some parts of this material, which
are not discussed further here, were published in Heyde, Das Ventilblasinstrument, 270-75.
57
A fingering chart from Bavaria with reversed valve order is not known to the authors. Tremmel,
(Blasinstrumentenbau, 453-54) published only Bavarian fingering charts with the normal valve order.
One of them specifically refers to a bombardon after Wenzel Riedl in Vienna; therefore it is not