Five Valve Helicon: What is it?

[Dylan King]

http://youtu.be/Dbf9R5eE3ko

Neat video, interesting instrument. Can anyone ID it?

[Untersatz]

Cerveny or Amati F would be my guess, but I've never seen a 5 valve model before

[Donn]

My guess is, some old thing with modifications done later. It looks and sounds to me somewhat like the Cerveny F helicon, but with obvious differences. And I don't think it's F. I'm not very good at watching fingers, and it looks far too small, but the fingers seem to be for C?

[imperialbari]

As for the Hawaii buyer: Either he told the story here on TN or I communicated with him personally, I don't remember which. Point was that there was an attempt to start a community band in his area. I have seen photos from one of their first rehearsals. Very few members, two flutes, helicon, and side drum. Maybe also a saxophone.

My main computer and my storage disks are packed down due to restoration of my home. That helicon is in my Yahoo-based gallery, also with Joe’s short demo video. From the index:

Weltklang Eb helicon 5RV - the fifth valve added by Joe Sellmansberger of Memphis - TN:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Yor ... 1172127377

Joe playing a short demo on the above helicon:
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Yor ... con%205RV/

You can only join from the second link. Or send me an email address via the mail button to the right of here, and I will invite you.

Klaus