FOR SALE: Early 18" Seamless Brass Phonograph Horn - $600

[Polyphone]

Early 18" Seamless Brass Phonograph Horn Original Finish

Beautiful brass patina.

Angled end, original felt slip on case. Great for a very early cylinder machine.

$600 plus shipping.

Can deliver to Union.

If interested, please email Ken Flaherty @ [email protected]

[Henry]

Pardon me, but that doesn't look "seamless" to me. This horn was made the way brass instrument bells are typically made, by joining two (or more) pieces of brass and soldering (where photos 2, 3, and 4 show the dark marks: those are the join lines). The resulting piece is then hammered and spun into shape, polished smooth, and buffed to a shine before lacquering.

[long_island_phono]

Pardon me, but that doesn't look "seamless" to me. This horn was made the way brass instrument bells are typically made, by joining two (or more) pieces of brass and soldering (where photos 2, 3, and 4 show the dark marks: those are the join lines). The resulting piece is then hammered and spun into shape, polished smooth, and buffed to a shine before lacquering.

I have always understood that "seamless" identifies a horn that does not have a separate bell section with a tangible horizontal seam like later soldered-seam and crimped-seam horns.

-Jake

[Henry]

It's no knock on a horn if it has seams---that's the way they're made! For many years I played, professionally, a top of the line Conn trombone, as did and do countless other professional brass instrument performers on trumpet, French horn, tuba, baritone horn/euphonium, etc. We all play(ed) instruments with bells made in just the way I described in my post above. I maintain that you can't call something "seamless" if it has seams! Clearly visible seams, at that. It's all in how the instrument sounds, not how it looks or even how it was put together, if the results are satisfactory. If that phonograph horn sounds good or better, then it's a good horn. If it sounds lousy, then it's not a good horn. But the seams are not going to go away, no matter how you define it!