Dick Martz,  His Collection of Horns from

Germany and Bohemia

                 
 Contents of This Collection: 
     Hunting Horns
     France, England, & Belgium
     Germany & Bohemia
     Vienna Horns
     Italy
     United States
A Nearly Complete List
Other Horns from Other Places
Horn Player Biographies
A Study of C.F. Schmidt Horns
Life & Times of a Horn Player


Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
anonymous
Germany?
Orchesterhorn
ca. 1800

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
anonymous
Berlin? Germany
Berliner pumpen valves
ca. 1840?

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
E. Kruspe
Erfurt, Germany
single
ca. 1870?

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Josef Wolf
Prague, Bohemia
triangular pattern valves
ca. 1860

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Josef Müller
Schönbach, Bohemia
triangular pattern valves
ca. 1880

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Kruspe
Erfurt, Germany
single
ca. 1880?

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
anonymous
Germany?
single in E♭
ca. 1880?

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
anonymous
Germany?
single with crooks
ca. 1885

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
anonymous
Germany
quick key change tap
ca. 1890?

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
August Bopp
Munich, Germany
single in F, B, A
ca. 1890

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Robert Schopper
Leipzig, Germany
single E♭ (right handed)
ca. 1890

011

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
V.F Cervený
Königgratz, Bohemia
single in F
ca. 1890

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Kruspe
Erfurt, Germany
Friedrich Gumpert
ca. 1890

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Kruspe
Erfurt, Germany
single (gold brass)
ca. 1890-1905

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
anonymous
Bohemia or Austria
high B♭descant 
ca. 1890-1905

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Kruspe
Erfurt/Leipzig, Germany
single (gold brass)
ca. 1893
093

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Kruspe
Erfurt, Germany
double D.R.G.M. 84240
1897
097

Maker:
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Model:
Year:
V.F Cervený & Sohne
Königgratz, Bohemia
F and E♭ alto
ca. 1903

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
V.F Cervený & Sohne
Königgratz, Bohemia
F and E♭
ca. 1903

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Gebr. Alexander
Mainz, Germany
single
ca. 1900

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Anton Holy
Pilsen, Bohemia
triangular pattern valves
ca 1900

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
C.F. Schmidt
Berlin, Germany
single B♭
ca. 1903

079

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
C. F. Schmidt
Berlin, Germany
Reginald Morley-Pegge
ca. 1905-1910

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
C.F Schmidt
Berlin, S.W. 19, Germany
single F
ca 1905-1910

067

Maker:
Location:
Model:
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C.F. Schmidt
Berlin, S.W. 19, Germany
single F
ca. 1905

064

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
C.F. Schmidt
Berlin, S.W. 19, Germany
single F
ca. 1905-1910

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Friedrich Gessner
Breslau, Germany
triangular pattern valves
ca. 1905-1910

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Willy Leonhardt
Erfurt, Germany
single F, E♭ alto
ca. 1905-1910

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Hans Kreul
Tübingen, Germany
single B♭ (right-handed)
ca. 1920

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
anonymous
Bohemia?
single (right handed)
ca. 1920

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
C.F. Schmidt
Weimar, Germany
Double descant in F/f
ca. 1925

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Carl Lehmann
Hamburg, Germany
compensating "Walzen"
ca. 1925

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
August Clemens Glier
Markneukirchen
single B♭(right-handed)
1930

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
C.A. Wunderlich
Siebenbrunn, Vogtland
Heubach
ca. 1930

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Josef Lidl
Brno, Czechoslovakia
"Acustic" Walzen
ca. 1930

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
3 Crowns (Schuster?)
Markneukirchen?
F, B♭ (right-handed)
19??

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
F. Kreisel
Posen, Germany
single F
?

040

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
C.F. Schmidt
Weimar, Germany
1934
double in F, B♭ 

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Ed. Kruspe
Erfurt, Germany
Horner (Mason Jones)
1936

Maker:
Location:
Model:
Year:
Gebr. Alexander
Mainz, Germany
descant B♭, high F
1950s

The horns of Germany and neighboring Bohemia are pretty much the opposite of the French, English, and Belgian models. In general they are of much larger bore, bell profile and diameter, and very early incorporated the rotary valve, designed and first produced (but not patented) by Friedrich Blühmel in 1828.
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