Serpent Forveille in B-flat
Forveille
ca. 1825
Medium
Wood, leather
Dimensions
110cm (box) x 46cm (box) x 34cm (box) L. 101 cm., Diameter. of bell +/-17.1 cm., Diameter of bore inside reciever 0.429 in. inside larger end of crook 1.105 in. inside brass tenon that enters wood tube 1.775 in.
Classification
Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-horn
Culture
French
Department
Musical Instruments
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession Number
89.4.1094