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For the last few years, my main axe has been a Recording...
combined here with a Swiss Brand Turbo mouthpiece in 1 1/2 C size

Good flugelhorny sound, yes; but he is playing that Kuhlohorn with an inappropriate mouthpiece. They were intended - just as all rotary flugelhorns to this day - to be played with a trumpet mouthpiece. The original Kuhlohorn sound is something like a straight cornet with a proper cornet mouthpiece.

@administrator Indeed it is. The inventor, a pastor Kuhlo, wanted something more mellow in tone than the peashooter trumpets ubiquituous in his day, to better fit in with trombones and helicons (cornets were almost unheard-of in Germany at the time)

@J-Jericho said in You've never heard Kuhlohorn like this:

Dimensions and sound appear quite similar to a flugelhorn, but with a more rounded wrap.

From what I read, the design is based off a flugelhorn.

@Newell-Post It's the same as with my Garreis tenor trombone - how in all the world got it fitted with a very small and narrow trumpet mouthpiece before sale??

@administrator It's just an alto horn in French horn shape with a trumpet shank receiver and right-handed.

@barliman2001 said in What is this instrument?! -- Ebay / Internet finds sticky:

@administrator That is not an oddity - these things are still played in many European wind bands when they don't have French horn players...

It seems like it may sound close to a posthorn, or corno da caccia?

It's a real oddity in the USA!

@administrator That is not an oddity - these things are still played in many European wind bands when they don't have French horn players...