Bukkehorn
Unknown Artist
A folk instrument of goat's horn is used in Scandinavia found under the name bukkehorn or prillarhorn. Its fingerholes facilitate different pitches and melodic possibilities, it may be the archetype from which the cornettos were derived.
Credit: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
c. 1883
Ram's horn
290.0mm
89.4.1136
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019