Antique C Mahillon Bruxelles 3 valve piston French Horn / Mellophone - No Case

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Fantastic Vintage C Mahillon Bruxelles French Horn / Mellophone - 3 piston Valves and 3 tuning slides, all free and working. No Case. This horn is over 100 years old. Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS Retail Ground.
Victor Charles Mahillon (1841 - 1924) was born in Brussels on March 10, 1841. He is of outstanding importance as a writer on acoustics and musical instruments, and was the honorary and zealous custodian of the museum of the Brussels Conservatoire. After studying music under some of the best professors there, he applied himself to the practical study of wind-instrument manufacture and was taken into his father's business in 1865. He started a musical journal L'Echo musical, in 1869 and continued it until 1886, when his time became too much occupied to attend to its direction. In 1876 he became the honorary curator of the museum of the Conservatoire, which, begun with Ftis's collection of 78 instruments, was, through his special knowledge and untiring energy, increased (1888) to upwards of 1500. An important contribution to it, of Indian instruments, was a division of the fine collection of the Rajah Sir Sourindro Mohun Tagore between the Brussels Conservatoire and the R.C.M in London.
By 1856 C. Mahillon became the most important wind instrument manufacturer in Belgium and was suppplier to the army, and also maker of percussion instruments. Around 1865 eldest son, Victor Charles Mahillon (1841 - 1924) was taken into the firm as a partner. The firm continued in operation by the family for a century until 1935.