Hunting Horn

This hunting horn is a rare example of a very clever design to make the instrument more easily transportable in the field. It maintains the 14 foot length of the standard hunting horn, but is wound quite tightly (the diameter across the coils is about the size of a dinner plate) and exceptionally, the opening of the bell is oval rather than being round, as is typical, so the instrument can be easily and safely slid into a saddle bag or game pouch. As is typical with hunting horns, the inside of the bell has been blackened so that sunlight does not bounce off it and ‘dazzle’ the horses and other animals. Because it was complicated to make horns to this pattern, not many were produced.