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A folk instrument of goat's horn is used in Scandinavia found under the name bukkehorn or prillarhorn. Its fingerholes facilitate different pitches and melodic possibilities, it may be the archetype from which the cornettos were derived.
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Title: Bukkehorn
Date: ca. 1883
Geography: Norway
Culture: Norwegian
Medium: Ram's horn
Dimensions: Length ca. 290 mm (length of tube), Diam. of bell 52 mm
Classification: Aerophone-Lip Vibrated-horn
Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Object Number: 89.4.1136
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