Horn Manufacture - Robert Engel - Vienna

The craft of hand making Viennese Horns filmed in 1986 by Anthony Morris on a visit to the workshop of Meister Robert Engel in Koppstraße Vienna. The tubes are filled with molten lead and, when solidified, this allows the tubes to be bent and hammered. The lead is then melted out of the tubes for re-use. This was no fast production-line manufacturing, extreme care was paid by Meister Engel himself (with the red pullover) to make sure his apprentices carried on the valuable tradition.

The Viennese Horn is the instrument that was used in the times of Bruckner, Brahms, Mahler, Schönberg, Webern, Berg and today in the Vienna Philharmonic. There are enough resources on the web that show the differences between these instruments and the contemporary double or triple horn.

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