Making a horn trumpet

[Buckshot]

I've been asked to make a small trumpet/ blower/ musical instrument thing out of a cow horn.
I've sanded it down and beeswaxed it as you can see (sorry about the photo quality ) but I'm wondering about the best way to make the mouth piece. Is it a case of just cutting the end off and drilling a hole or is there more to it than that?
I don't want to shorten it too much as it's small enough already.
I should also explain it's for an amateur dramatics play (Robin Hood) so doesn't need to be historically correct or anything, I was actually thinking of getting a mouth piece from a brass instrument and using that - trouble is I haven't got access to one.
So what do you experts on ancient techniques think???

Cheers

Mark

 

[Greywolf]

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Greywolf

 

[Buckshot]

Thanks Carl
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Cheers

Mark

 

[Marts]

There's this..

http://www.tirbriste.org/dmir/BoneHorn/0404/0404.html

Don't know if that's any use - you need a trumpet mouthpiece to make it work.

 

[Bardster]

I've been asked to make a small trumpet/ blower/ musical instrument thing out of a cow horn.
I've sanded it down and beeswaxed it as you can see (sorry about the photo quality ) but I'm wondering about the best way to make the mouth piece. Is it a case of just cutting the end off and drilling a hole or is there more to it than that?
I don't want to shorten it too much as it's small enough already.
I should also explain it's for an amateur dramatics play (Robin Hood) so doesn't need to be historically correct or anything, I was actually thinking of getting a mouth piece from a brass instrument and using that - trouble is I haven't got access to one.
So what do you experts on ancient techniques think???

Cheers

Mark

My vike blowing horn just has a hole in the end - and another I have seen just has a hole in the side. They work quite well I can sort out a picture if you like.

 

[Ogri the trog]

Depending on the seriousness of the production,
Why not use the end piece out of a party blower kids toy type thing. The coiled up paper dodahs that go Blarrrrrrr with a feather on the end!

Ogri the trog

 

[Platypus]

The coiled up paper dodahs that go Blarrrrrrr with a feather on the end!

Ogri the trog

You have such an eloquent way with words