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Tubaphone.
Technical description: 25 brass tubes, some plated, of diameter 21 and lengths 290-135. Mounted in keyboard layout through holes in wooden frame of length 718 and width 174-350. The frame closely fits in a wooden case. The bars are supported at their 'node points' in loops of string hanging centrally in the wooden frame holes.
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Circa 1925 - Maker:
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University of Edinburgh - Inventory number:
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Great Britain - Hornbostel-Sachs classification:111.232 Sets of percussion tubes
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- Hornbostel-Sachs category:111.232 Sets of percussion tubes
- Repository:University of Edinburgh
- Measurements:case 742 × 384 × 119.
- View the original record:https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17611