Vintage Higham Tenor Horn

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Vintage Higham Tenor Horn

Vintage Higham Tenor Horn dating from the early 1920s. The instrument is in a a nice cosmetic condition for its age with some small dents, but nothing major. The valves are a little bit leaky, so unfortunately it doesn’t play quite as well as it would have once done.

Joseph Higham, of all the provincial British firms of brass instrument makers, was the longestlasting and the most productive and innovative, energetically competing with the major London makers – Distin & Co (later Boosey & Co, and Boosey & Hawkes) and F. Besson (later Besson Co). The firm was established in Manchester by Joseph Higham in 1842 and operated independently until 1923, and then as a subsidiary until 1939.