The instruments
Two families of instrument, sharing one set of crooks. Every horn is made to order and fitted to the player.
Not a copy
Zoltán Juhász does not build copies of particular museum originals. He has said publicly that copying carries three-hundred-year-old design faults forward with it.
Instead he builds decades of accumulated experience into the instruments: the sound follows the tonal ideal of the period, while the instrument speaks reliably under present-day playing conditions.
How the trade describes them
He is listed in the Historic Brass Society’s directory of period horn makers. The directory describes the two instruments as follows:
Classical horn: “Bohemian style” hand horn – not designed with one particular original in mind but envisaged as an evolution of their baroque horn, taking the best elements of a number of classical instruments with “improvements” made with the modern horn player in mind.
Baroque horn: Similar ethos to their classical horn. In the style of the baroque horns of John Webb using a number of vent holes.
One set of crooks
Crooks for the baroque and natural horns can be interchanged between the instruments.