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Tenor trombone. Nominal pitch: B♭.

Technical description: Silver-plated brass; plated inner slides. The inner slide stay of two parallel adjacent tubes. Slide lock; ligature fitting at joint. Two rings on each stocking (for oil?). Probably originally supplied with alternative tuning-slides for high and low pitch.

  • Date:
    Circa 1928
  • Maker:
    Hawkes & Son [Corporation]
  • Collection:
    University of Edinburgh
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  • Place of production:
    London/England
  • Hornbostel-Sachs classification:423.22
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  • Hornbostel-Sachs category:423.22
  • Repository:University of Edinburgh
  • Measurements:1100; bell 167.