Couesnon Eb Tenor Cor 1930

 

Couesnon Eb Tenor Cor 1929

Obsolete instrument. Replaced with mellophone or mellophonium.


eBay from France. Missing mouthpiece.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8jrQo2FZo playing. Hand in the bell for high notes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FcMGR-m2XA


https://www.historicbrass.org/edocman/newsletter/HBSN_1994_NL06_Summer.pdf    A View of an Important Horn Collection and a Look at Some 19th-Century Instrument Makers by Vicente Zorzo. Includes Couesnon Eb Tenor Cor.






https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16635  Tenor cor mouthpiece. Horn. Deep cup. Large diameter shank.









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