"Horns in Medieval times, made of what?" Topic
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| Volleyfire | 12 Oct 2018 3:52 a.m. PST |
Not your curved hunting horn made from a hollowed out horn but trumpets and long horns such as we see cavalry carrying. Could they made from copper or brass, or painted perhaps? |
| Cacique Caribe | 12 Oct 2018 4:21 a.m. PST |
Looks like a soft metal, so brass makes sense: link Brass is what the Romans and others used in ancient times too. Dan EDIT – Here's a medieval trumpet from Krakow:
It looks very similar to the ones in this illustration:
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| goragrad | 12 Oct 2018 4:36 a.m. PST |
Horn, wood, or metal depending on time and location, And as Dan notes, brass has been used for millennia. |
| Volleyfire | 12 Oct 2018 6:07 a.m. PST |
Thanks guys. I'll repaint my copper one as brass I think. |
Twilight Samurai  | 12 Oct 2018 9:38 p.m. PST |
Are they blowing horns or is that a drinking game? |
| Herce Salon de Guerre | 13 Oct 2018 4:05 a.m. PST |
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| goragrad | 13 Oct 2018 5:33 a.m. PST |
One other note – silver or tin plating has been around for some time and used to enhance the appearance of copper, bronze, and brass. Not unlikely that the trumpet of a herald for someone of sufficient rank would be so treated. |
 Swampster | 20 Jan 2019 9:08 a.m. PST |
There is such a huge variety in composition with different samples of brass and bronze that I wouldn't worry about repainting from copper.
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shows some examples. Archaeologists tend to just refer to them as 'copper alloys' unless they have been analyzed, and even then the difference isn't as clear cut as modern terms would suggest. |
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