Used Conn 8D French Horn Free And Easy

Most horns today are either.468 inch, 12 millimeter, or a size between the two, the metric tubing size being slightly bigger.

Usually European horns are metric so in reality an Alexander 103 actually has a larger bore through the valve section than a Conn 8D.

A large throated bell is most easily perceived as being large bore in the area where our hand would fit in the bell.

Thus, in common usage in our horn world, a large bore horn would be one with a large throated bell and the 8D is much larger bore in this area of the horn than the Alexander.

The A is for the American bell throat which is their largest model, N for nickel silver, D for detachable bell.

Used Conn 8D French Horn Free And Easy

The 25 model designation is for a dual bore double horn where the tubing through the B-flat horn is normal, conventional bore size and the tubing through the F horn valve slides is noticeably larger, full half-inch tubing The result is a horn that is free and easy blowing with a big, orchestral sound.

This varies at right around the size of the average pencil so if you compare several leadpipes with pencils (clean the leadpipe first) you will see that some are larger and smaller than others at this point.

Older Conn 8D horns for example typically have a rather small bore at the smallest point of the leadpipe but these are again not considered to be small bore horns.

In reality though makers have used sizes that are slight variations on these dimensions, depending on suppliers and such, and players will probably keep right on thinking bore mostly relates to the size of the throat of the bell.

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