Our Instruments - Jagdhornverein Twin Cities

Parforce horns

Most of the founding members of JVTC purchased new instruments from the German firm of MTP Music GmbH & Co. KG, which has developed a unique instrument with a detachable bell, making it more practical and economical to ship overseas to the U.S.A.

This instrument is based on a design of Kalison (Milano, Italy) who produced it also for Alexander Mainz for many years. When Kalison closed their factory in 2003, MTP, who had been a Kalison distributor for fifteen years, copied this model for their own production.

Speaking of Alexander, among our instruments is one Alexander Es/B model, obtained used by JVTC co-founder Jeffrey A. Ohlmann by way of Rimksy’s Horns in Soest, The Netherlands, in 2024. The vintage is unknown but presumably it is a model 1177 or one of its antecedents.

Two other instruments were located in the Twin Cities area in the period leading up to the founding of JVTC. These instruments were formerly owned by local teacher and performer Vikki Wheeler, who passed away in 2023. The instruments were subsequently acquired by Professor Caroline Lemen, who teaches at the University of Minnesota, and now have been graciously loaned to JVTC starting in 2025. These instruments are of unknown vintage and uncertain origin, bearing no markings and of a highly unusual design in the change valve. The bell diameter is 25.5 cm (10 in).

Fürst-Pless horns

JVTC also owns two matching Fürst-Pless horns, again obtained from MTP Music GmbH & Co. KG.

Trompes and cor de chasse

As part of our mission to explore and inform our members and audiences of the full history of the hunting horn, JVTC has two trompes de chasse.

One contemporary trompe de chasse in D by SML-Paris, model FFH82D.

One Couesnon trompe de chasse in D, ca. 1950s, purchased through Hampson Horns (Buffalo, NY, USA).

And lastly, one lonely cor de chasse, also Couesnon ca. 1950, and also from Hampson Horns.