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Cornopean. Nominal pitch: B♭ etc.
Technical description: Copper with nickel or nickel alloy fittings and garland; shank and crooks also copper with nickel or nickel alloy fittings. Clapper key. Shank for A; crooks for G and F only. Valve top caps with cork wells. Tuning-slide configuration: the moving part of the main tuning-slide has the proximal outer leg and the distal inner leg; 1st and 2nd valves have outer slide on moving part; 3rd valve inner slide on moving part. Valve type: 3 Stölzel valves with spring inside cylindrical capsule; alignment by key on capsule; metal partitions. Repair History: Clapper key a replacement, 1982.
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1834-53, probably c1840 - Maker:
Pace, Charles [Person] - Collection:
University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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London/England - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.233.1-4 Valve trumpets with short air column (less than 2 m) and with crooks
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.233.1-4 Valve trumpets with short air column (less than 2 m) and with crooks
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:270; bell 131.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/18381