I don't get it (that's no shock to those that know me). As a hobby I play electric bass and play occasionally at a local coffee house and sometimes with a full-blown band at church. Love it! I guess I'm weird ( no suprise there!) but when I camp I only want to hear "mother nature". Birds, wind, water, rain, whatever. But I don't crave music. I get enough just playing and listening at home ( that includes all the garbage I hear as the "Homies" pass by my house here in the barrio). I will never understand the need to replace the wonderful quiet of nature with what we replace it with. Just my 2 cents (usually not even worth that to most people)Let the flaming begin.

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The brand is pronounced "Kwee-non" and they were a huge manufacturer of brass instruments in France for the first half of the 20th century. Your horn is ca. 1950-1965 I would say, as pre-1950 they did not have serial numbers and it looks to have the original case, which would be of 50s-60s vintage. It is silver-plated brass and looks to be in decent shape. I think roobear is correct about the stuck valve. But it probably wouldn't take a lot to get it playing again. As for how to display, I couldn't tell you. In this house we just play 'em, we don't dis-play 'em. If you have a piano, maybe propped on that. Or on a side table on top of some sheet music.

"Elmer, playing in a handbell choir isn’t playing a musical instrument?" Sorry no, not in my opinion. In learning to play a musical instrument, there are underlying things to know that any beginner must grasp, essential to being able to understand and apply putting the pieces together. -Scales and keys, major and minor -The basic relationships between different chords and progressions, in any key -Time signatures, types of notes and beats (this is where your syncopation-challenged person came up short) -A few other miscellaneous things. None of which require knowing how to read music notation to understand but it's an easy and traditional way. Looking at a keyboard can also be done (whether that's the intended instrument or not) and all basics but rhythm can be seen and learned. Part of developing proficiency, as I mentioned above, is learning the puzzle pieces and then applying them independently and apart from what was taught. The Happy Birthday example. A person who has this basic knowledge from learning an instrument will HEAR these elements in the music of others they listen to. They'll have insights about what they listen to that others without the basic training won't. It opens a wonderful world that too many miss out on. I suspect none of these are needed or done in playing a bell.